Sleep Hygiene Intervention on Undergraduate Students' Sleep and Stress

Wayne State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Emotional; Sleep Disturbance

Treatments: Behavioral: Sleep Hygiene Intervention; Behavioral: Non-behavioral Sleep Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05933746

IRB-21-10-4095

Details and patient eligibility

About

Poor sleep is common among college students and likely contributes to stress. The investigators developed a brief, remotely-delivered intervention and tested whether it improves sleep hygiene and reduced sleep disturbance and stress among undergraduates.

Full description

Poor sleep is common among college students and likely contributes to stress. The investigators developed a brief, remotely-delivered sleep hygiene intervention, which is delivered via the internet, and tested in a randomized controlled trial, whether it improves sleep hygiene and reduced sleep disturbance and stress in a sample of undergraduates who report wanting to improve their sleep. This study compares the novel sleep hygiene intervention to an active, matched control condition--sleep education. Baseline and 2-week follow-up questionnaires assess sleep hygiene, sleep disturbance, and stress. ANCOVAs will compare conditions at follow-up, and mediation tests will explore whether the intervention reduced stress through improved sleep.

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Undergraduate students at Wayne State University
• Self-reported desire to improve their sleep

Exclusion criteria

• Graduate students / professional students

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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108 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Sleep Hygiene Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

1-hour, on-line set of three modules pertaining to various sleep hygiene behaviors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sleep Hygiene Intervention

Non-behavioral Sleep Education

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

active, matched placebo condition that controls for engagement and rationale

Treatment:

Behavioral: Non-behavioral Sleep Education