Using Yoga to Reduce Chaos and Improve Preschooler Sleep

Emily Guseman

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep, Inadequate; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga-based bedtime routine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06549868

19-X-124

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this intervention study is to learn if a yoga-based bedtime routine is feasible for families to follow and to learn if the routine is effective at improving preschooler sleep. The main question it aims to answer is:

Will families be able to follow the routine regularly during the study period? Will following the yoga routine improve household chaos and preschooler sleep? Researchers will compare the yoga group to a control group to see if implementing the yoga routine works better than simple advice to read a bedtime story.

Participants will be asked to visit the lab 4 times. At the first visit, we will measure body size of parents and children, ask parents to complete some surveys, and fit each of them with an activity monitor. One week later, they will return for the second visit. At this visit, we will collect the activity monitor and assign the participants to either the intervention (yoga) or control (bedtime story) group. Families in the intervention group will learn about the intervention and be asked to follow it for the next four weeks. Families in the control group will receive a book and advice about reading stories at bedtime. After four weeks, families will return to the lab for a third visit and we will repeat the measurements from visit 1. Then, families in the intervention group will be asked to follow the yoga routine as much as they would like to for the next 4 weeks. Families in the control group will "cross over" to the intervention group and will follow the yoga intervention for 4 weeks. Then, families will return to the lab for a 4th visit, where we will repeat all of the measures from the first visit and the study will be complete.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children between 2.0-5.9 years of age and their self-identified primary parent/guardian

Exclusion criteria

• Parent currently pregnant Child or parent unable to walk independently Child or parent has an upper body mobility limitation that precludes completion of yoga routine

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be asked to follow a yoga-based bedtime routine for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga-based bedtime routine

Story

Other group

Description:

Waitlist control arm. Participants will complete a 4-week control period upon randomization. After this control period is completed, they will crossover into the intervention group and follow the same 4 week intervention as the yoga group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga-based bedtime routine