Evaluation of Circadian Health Educational Tool
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 54
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Participant qualitative feedback on CircaHealth
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of an online education course about circadian rhythms and health. Half of participants will be enrolled into the online course and the other half will receive materials on sleep hygiene as a control.
详细描述
This is a pilot randomized controlled study that aims to develop CircaHealth: an online course on practices, known as circadian hygiene, that promote circadian rhythm alignment and minimize circadian rhythm misalignment. The project also will determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of CircaHealth in improving circadian rhythm related measures in University of Miami Miller School of Medicine medical students.
The educational videos will be incorporated into a six-module online course which contains additional educational and behavior modification tools. Medical students (n = 40) will be recruited via email and randomized to receive CircaHealth or materials from the National Sleep Foundation and/or the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Sleep, mood, and circadian hygiene knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes will be assessed at baseline and four weeks post intervention. Feasibility will be determined by CircaHealth module completion rates, and acceptability will be assessed via a self-report survey. Changes in sleep quality measures between groups will determine the preliminary efficacy of CircaHealth.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
盲法说明
Participants will be assigned a study ID such that the investigators cannot determine the identify of the participants or which arm of the study each participant is in.
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Medical students, 1st through 4th year, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine willing to participate in surveys and the CircaHealth course.
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
CircaHealth
The CircaHealth group will receive access to an online educational module on circadian rhythms and health as their intervention. Every week for six weeks, these participants will receive a new module that contains videos, quizzes, behavioral modification checklists, and journal prompts.
干预措施: CircaHealth: a course on circadian rhythms and health (Other)
Sleep hygiene materials
The control group will receive publicly available materials about sleep hygiene from the National Sleep Foundation and/or the American Academy of Sleep Medicine every week for six weeks as their intervention.
干预措施: Sleep hygiene materials (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Participant qualitative feedback on CircaHealth
时间窗: Six weeks
Participants will be surveyed every week on what aspects of CircaHealth were helpful and what aspects of CircaHealth can be improved. This qualitative data will be analyzed to determine which aspects of CircaHealth positively and negatively impacted the educational value of the course.
Participant completion rate of CircaHealth
时间窗: Six weeks
Determine how many participants completed all modules within CircaHealth. Participants status in the course will be assessed via survey weekly such that their completion of each module can be determined.
次要结局
- Change in Epworth Sleepiness Scale scores four weeks after the completion of CircaHealth(Ten weeks)
- Change in Circadian Health Scale scores four weeks after the completion of CircaHealth(Ten weeks)
- Change in Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores four weeks after the completion of CircaHealth(Ten weeks)
- Change in Munich Chronotype scores four weeks after the completion of CircaHealth(Ten weeks)
- Change in Maslach General Survey for Students scores four weeks after the completion of CircaHealth(Ten weeks)
研究者
Dylan Petkus
Student Doctor
University of Miami