Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act (SIESTA)

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Disorders; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: Educating hospital staff on good sleep hygiene for patients and screening for sleep disorders

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02025959

12-1766

Details and patient eligibility

About

Getting better sleep in the hospital is especially important due to a variety of adverse health effects that can potentially worsen patient recovery.

To address these concerns and improve sleep in US hospitals, we aim to develop the SIESTA (Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act) program as an educational intervention designed to prepare hospital staff to assist patients in obtaining better sleep in hospitals and recognize the importance of screening for sleep disorders. The major educational goals of this proposal is to develop and pilot test an online educational program (SIESTA) which aims to train and motivate medical professionals to provide better sleep for hospitalized patients.

We will utilize data from an ongoing sleep study, performed by the research team at the University of Chicago that looks at how adult patients are able to sleep while they are in the hospital, as a means of education for the participating medical staff.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be eligible to participate in this study, the subjects must be University of Chicago hospital employees over the age of 18 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• We will exclude any hospital staff under the age of 18 years old from this study as well as hospital patients and non-hospital staff.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

Educational Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Educating hospital staff on good sleep hygiene for patients and screening for sleep disorders

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educating hospital staff on good sleep hygiene for patients and screening for sleep disorders