Sleep Hygiene Intervention for Latino Middle School Children
This study is testing a program called SIESTA (School Intervention to Enhance Latino Students' Time Asleep) to help urban Latino middle school children improve their sleep. Poor sleep can affect how children learn and their overall health. SIESTA is a special program designed for this group, focusing on sleep hygiene (habits and practices that are conducive to sleeping well). Researchers want to see if children who participate in SIESTA have better sleep, better sleep habits, and fewer sleep-related problems compared to a control group that receives general sleep and health education. You might be able to join if you are a Latino middle schooler between 11 and 13 years old, live in certain areas, and typically sleep less than 9 hours a night. The study will measure how long you sleep and how good your sleep quality is.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 300 participants. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the SIESTA program or a control group.
- What's involved
- Participants in the SIESTA group will attend 4 remote group sleep education sessions and complete two individual sessions with a facilitator. Sleep duration and quality will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at the start, end of treatment, and at 4, 8, and 12 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for 12 months after the intervention or control period to assess sleep duration and quality.
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A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
2 sites across 2 statesStudy leadership
- Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Ligia Chavez, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
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What this trial measures
- Sleep DurationSleep duration will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at baseline, immediately after the intervention ("end of treatment") and at follow ups at 4, 8, and 12 months post intervention/control.
Sleep Duration through actigraphy will be calculated through Time in Bed (TIB) scores. A daily diary will document sleep events (e.g., bedtime) to score actigraphic data . Children will wear the actigraph Motion Logger device for 1-2 weeks at each time point. Data will be compared to data in a family-report daily diary using standard procedures.
- Sleep Efficiency/QualitySleep efficiency will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at baseline, end of treatment and at each 4, 8, and 12 months post intervention/control.
Sleep efficiency will be estimated via actigraphy and will be calculated through % epochs of sleep between sleep start and sleep end.