Sensible Sleep: Measuring Alarm and Snooze Behavior in Teens Using Wearables and Smartphones

University of Notre Dame

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Sleep Inertia; Sleep; Stress

Treatments: Device: Cell phone notification

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04786678

20-10-6256

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pilot data suggests that working professionals and college students routinely use alarms and snooze. Alarm usage and snoozing is associated with several negative health biomarkers including lighter sleep, higher resting heart rate, and reduced sleep duration. It is unclear when this behavior is established, but it is likely in the teenage years when chronic sleep restriction begins to effect a large percentage of Americans. We will ask teens about psychological traits (e.g. personality) and snoozing behavior in a repeated measures design. In addition, we will implement a smartphone based intervention which notifies teens when they are awake past their minimum bedtime for adequate sleep. throughout the study, we will monitor sleep and heart-rate via wearable. From this data, we will establish the prevalence of alarm and snoozing behaviors in teens. We will determine what demographic, psychological, and behavioral traits predict snoozing, and if there are any differences in health biomarkers (e.g. sleep duration, resting heart rate)between snooze and/or alarm users. We will use data from the wearables and smartphones to generate features that can detect snoozing, and will validate them against self-report. Finally, we seek to determine if alarm and snoozing behavior can be reduced via a smartphone intervention aimed at increasing sleep duration.

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:English as a primary language -

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

All participants

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will have a baseline before all participants undergo intervention. The purpose is to pilot the intervention to establish possible effects, as well as to determine if there are any usability or other issues.

Treatment:

Device: Cell phone notification