Sleep Disturbance in Deployed Soldiers

Brooke Army Medical Center

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Sleep Disturbance

Treatments: Other: Relaxation CD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00860756

I2007.242dt

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypotheses:

• Hypothesis 1 - Sleep can be measured in Theater using actigraph technology.
• Hypothesis 2 - Standard sleep measures in Soldiers randomized to a sleep intervention group will more closely approximate normal as compared to sleep measures of Soldiers randomized to the control group.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All study participants must be on Active Duty, or be Reserve or National Guard Service Members notified of impending deployment.
• Recruited prior to deployment in order to obtain baseline measures before deployment.
• Have been stateside at least one full year.
• Able to read and speak English and consent themselves.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with self-identified sleep disorder (for example restless leg syndrome or sleep apnea)
• Pregnancy. Pregnant women will be excluded from the study since pregnancy places women in a non-deployable status and pregnant Soldiers will not be deploying.

Trial design

150 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention Group

Treatment:

Other: Relaxation CD