A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children

Conditions

• Ethnic Minority
• Intervention Study
• Sleep
• Sleep Quality

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

11 Years - 13 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• SIESTA — BEHAVIORAL
  Active condition
• Sleep education and health education control — BEHAVIORAL
  Attention Control

Study Details

The main goal of this study is to evaluate the "SIESTA" intervention, a culturally and contextually tailored sleep hygiene intervention that has the potential to exert greater improvements in sleep hygiene and sleep outcomes for group that may be more vulnerable to poor sleep health. The main question is: do SIESTA participants have improved sleep outcomes, sleep hygiene behaviors and less sleep-related impairment compared to Control Group participants? Participants randomized to the SIESTA intervention will: 1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sleep hygiene education sessions 2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator 3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention. 4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality. Participants randomized to the Child Health Control condition will: 1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sessions covering general health topics 2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator 3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention. 4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality. A secondary goal of the study is to conduct a process evaluation to prepare for future larger scale use of the intervention in other urban school settings. This will entail assessing Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) of the program through several methods, such as by conducting in-depth interviews with research participants and their parents/guardians, as well as school staff and by looking at rates of participation in the program.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 25, 2025

Status verified

Jul 2025

Primary completion

Mar 31, 2029

Completion

Mar 31, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: SIESTA
  The SIESTA Intervention includes 4, 60-minute group remote sessions by a trained facilitator, and 2, 90-minute family sessions in their home 1 week after group Sessions 1 and 4. SIESTA incorporates key sleep hygiene principles and strategies critical to optimal sleep health in middle schoolers and tailored to urban Latino children's cultural background and urban setting. Areas of focus include the importance of adequate sleep duration, principles and strategies to enhance sleep hygiene, and characteristics of healthy sleep environments, and were developed with targeted goals. After intervention group Session 1, daily sleep questions about the child participant are completed, including key sleep parameters (bedtime, rise time, night awakenings) and sleep hygiene behaviors (daytime naps, electronics, caffeine use) via Qualtrics. Responses are summarized and presented pictorially in caregiver-child sessions to facilitate developing sleep goals for the youth and assess their progress.
• Other: Sleep Education plus Child Health attention control
  A facilitator from the community will deliver this attention control condition, which consists of the same number of sessions as SIESTA but will focus only on basic sleep hygiene education plus general child health topics (e.g., nutrition, physical activity, safety). It is expected that this will exert limited treatment effects on sleep hygiene, because it does not 1) involve effective behavioral approaches for this age group, or 2) include content tailored for urban Latinos.

Primary Outcome Measure

Sleep Duration [ Time Frame: Sleep 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. ]

Central Contacts

• Sheryl J Kopel, MSc
  +1-401-444-7217
  [email protected]
• Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD
  +1-401-793-8632
  [email protected]

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