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UCLA REST Study: Sleep Techniques for College Students

This study, called the UCLA REST Study, is looking at ways to improve sleep for young adults. It's testing two approaches: Mindfulness Meditation (Mindful Awareness Practices for Sleep or MAPS) and Sleep Education. MAPS teaches mindfulness techniques to help with sleep, while Sleep Education provides tips for better sleep habits. The study wants to see if these interventions can improve your sleep quality. You might be able to join if you are a first or second-year UCLA undergraduate student, aged 18-22, live in a UCLA residential hall, and have some sleep disturbance. The study aims to enroll 240 students. The main goal is to see how much sleep quality changes from the beginning to after the intervention, and then track it for up to a year.

Study design
This study is a randomized controlled trial, meaning participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. It plans to enroll 240 participants.
What's involved
You would participate in group sessions once a week for six weeks. Your sleep quality will be measured at the start, after the intervention, and then at 3, 6, and 12 months.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Participants will be followed for 3, 6, and 12 months after the intervention to assess long-term sleep quality.

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NCT05576090

UCLA REST Study (REsearch on Sleep Techniques)

Recruiting
NAAges 18–22InterventionalTreatment
University of California, Los Angeles
~240 participants
Updated 2025-11-10 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Mindfulness MeditationSleep Education

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in sleep quality from baseline to post-intervention on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
Measured over Baseline and post-intervention; 3, 6, and 12-month follow-up

Conditions

Sleep Disturbance
Inflammation
Psychosocial Functioning

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
California1

Study leadership

  • Julienne E Bower, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of California, Los Angeles
  • Andrew Fuligni, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of California, Los Angeles

Who to contact

Deborah E Garet, MPH
[email protected]
(310) 975-9035
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

First or second year undergraduate student at UCLA
Ages 18-22 years old
Must live in the residential halls on UCLA campus
Must have a score of 8 or above on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), indicating at least sub-threshold levels of sleep disturbance.

Exclusion

Current diagnosis of mood or anxiety disorder as determined by the PHQ-8 or by the GAD-7 if score \"15\" or more on either measure
Presence of medical conditions or use of medications that may influence sleep or inflammation (e.g., autoimmune disorder)
Previous or current formal instruction in mindfulness meditation (e.g., MAPs, MBSR) or current sleep education program

What this trial measures

  • Change in sleep quality from baseline to post-intervention on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)Baseline and post-intervention; 3, 6, and 12-month follow-up

    The PSQI includes 19 items, yielding seven dimensions of sleep: duration, disturbance, latency, daytime dysfunction, efficiency, quality, and sleeping medication use. Following standard procedure, we will obtain the PSQI global score by summing across all seven components. Each component has a maximum score of three points; the highest possible global score is 21. Higher PSQI global scores indicate poorer quality, with scores above 5 suggesting clinically-significant sleep disturbance. Our main analyses of the primary outcome will focus on the PSQI global score at post-intervention. Follow-up, exploratory analyses will examine whether observed effects are unique to any of the seven separate subscales of the PSQI, and whether there are intervention effects at the 3, 6, and 12-month post-intervention follow-ups.