Inpatient Sleep Loss: Educating and Empowering Patients
- Conditions
- Sleep
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Patient EmpowermentOther: Sleep Kit
- Registration Number
- NCT04151251
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Chicago
- Brief Summary
While many interventions have targeted hospital staff to improve sleep, few have been successful, and often suffer from limited adherence to staff protocols. Given preliminary data that suggests that empowered patients are more likely to obtain better sleep and have objectively lower noise levels in their rooms, it is plausible that partnering directly with patients can mitigate sleep loss and improve health outcomes. Patients will be randomized to receive the I-SLEEP education and empowerment program and test the effectiveness of this program on patient sleep and health outcome in the hospital and post-discharge. The aim of the project is to reduce environmental, healthcare-related, and patient-related factors that disrupt sleep of hospitalized patients by use of patient education and empowerment intervention.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 256
- Admitted to the general/hospitalist medicine departments
- Stayed at least one night in hospital since admission
- Admitted >72 hours ago
- Patient has been diagnosed with a sleep disorder such as narcolepsy, insomnia, or sleep apnea
- Patient was transferred from ICU or outside hospital
- Patient under strict, droplet, or airborne isolation precautions
- Unable to ambulate
- Too confused or incoherent to provide consent
- Patient cannot speak English
- Pregnancy
- Residence in a nursing home or assisted living facility
- Patient was admitted in a hospital within two weeks of current admission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Sleep Kit + Empowerment Patient Empowerment A short video will be shown on iPads and a brochure will be given that both describe the importance of good sleep and how to facilitate it with good sleep hygiene. The video will show a few reasons why someone might not get optimal sleep while in a hospital, and offer advice to address this from a doctor. The brochure will be kept to no higher than a 6th grade reading level, considered optimal for health education materials. Text will be kept brief and to the point. To account for vision problems, we will use \>12-point font \& leave a large portion of each page empty. Visual Aids \& graphics will be employed when possible. All of this is given in addition to the usual standard of care provided by clinicians. Sleep Kit Alone Sleep Kit Patients who are not randomized into the I-SLEEP intervention will receive a sleep kit that includes an eye mask, earplugs, and headphones.They will still receive the usual standard of care provided by clinicians which includes measures to reduce unnecessary nighttime disruptions and limiting excessive noise within the hospital setting. Sleep Kit + Empowerment Sleep Kit A short video will be shown on iPads and a brochure will be given that both describe the importance of good sleep and how to facilitate it with good sleep hygiene. The video will show a few reasons why someone might not get optimal sleep while in a hospital, and offer advice to address this from a doctor. The brochure will be kept to no higher than a 6th grade reading level, considered optimal for health education materials. Text will be kept brief and to the point. To account for vision problems, we will use \>12-point font \& leave a large portion of each page empty. Visual Aids \& graphics will be employed when possible. All of this is given in addition to the usual standard of care provided by clinicians.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Karolinska Sleep Log - Sleep Times Through stay in the hospital until discharge, usually 2-3 days A self-reported measure of time spent sleeping, time it took to fall asleep, etc.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Karolinska Sleep Log - Outcomes of Sleep Through stay in the hospital until discharge, usually 2-3 days Subjective quality of sleep as determined by scales such as "On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most, how refreshed did you feel upon waking up this morning?"
Actigraphy - Objective Measure of Sleep Duration During stay at the hospital, for a week after, and for a week three months after discharge Actiwatch Spectrum Pros used to determine sleep duration
Actigraphy - Objective Measure of Sleep Quality During stay at the hospital, for a week after, and for a week three months after discharge Actiwatch Spectrum Pros used to determine sleep quality
Frequency of Sleep Disruptions in the Hospital Setting Through stay in the hospital until discharge, usually 2-3 days Administered to obtain a subjective view of typical disruptions to sleep such as bed comfort, room temperature, and pain. Items will also assess the disruptions that are caused by healthcare, such as vital signs, medication administration, and lab-work. This survey includes an item on how disruptive noise was to the patient's sleep, broken down into as many sources of hospital noise as possible.
Number of nighttime disruptions to sleep Through stay in the hospital until discharge, usually 2-3 days Measure of disruptions patients receive between 11 PM and 7 AM, determined by hospital hand sanitizer stations outside doors and electronic health record audits
Patients Who Report Talking to Clinicians About Their Healthcare Through stay in the hospital until discharge, usually 2-3 days Measure of number of patients who advocate for their sleep by making lifestyle changes, including speaking to their clinicians to reduce nighttime disruptions
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Chicago Medical Center
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States