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Bedtime Stories: A Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Health-Related Behavior
Sleep
Interventions
Behavioral: Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for community healthcare providers (BTS-HP)
Registration Number
NCT06455579
Lead Sponsor
Boston Children's Hospital
Brief Summary

This is a pilot intervention of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for healthcare providers serving school aged children and their caregivers. The intervention uses a pre-post design across participants.

Detailed Description

To date, there are no established sleep health education programs for healthcare providers. To address this gap, the investigators previously conducted semi-structured interviews with community-based healthcare providers to improve our knowledge and understanding of healthcare providers' attitudes and beliefs about sleep health, factors that may contribute to poor sleep health, and identify potential sleep health promotion strategies for low income, racial and ethnic minority children and their families. Data from those sessions helped to inform and refine content to develop a sleep health education program for community healthcare providers. The purpose of this protocol it assess the effectiveness of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program in Community Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP).

Healthcare providers from participating community healthcare centers will be invited to participate. Once a healthcare provider expresses interest in participating, they will receive a REDCap link to provide their informed consent. The provider will then complete a short demographic questionnaire via REDCap. Once the healthcare provider consents and completes the short questionnaire, they will receive a secure link to the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP). The BTS-HP is an online sleep health education program supported by the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Education (CE Courses - BCH Education (childrenshospital.org). The provider will also receive access to an educational webinar on Melatonin. The provider can participate all modules and the webinar in one sitting or overtime. Once the provider completes the online modules, they will immediately receive an email with a REDCap link to complete their post-participation questionnaire.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
75
Inclusion Criteria
  • 18 years old or over
  • Community Healthcare Provider (physicians, residents, registered nurses, nurse practitioners) at participating community healthcare centers in the Boston area
  • Serve families with school-aged (4-10 years of age) children
  • English fluency
Exclusion Criteria
  • Community healthcare providers that do not see school-aged children (4-10 years of age)

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare ProvidersBedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for community healthcare providers (BTS-HP)The BTS-HP is an online sleep health education program supported by the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Education (CE Courses - BCH Education (childrenshospital.org). The provider will also receive access to an educational webinar on Melatonin. The provider can participate all modules and the webinar in one sitting or overtime.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Provider knowledge, perceptions, and practices of sleep health1-14 days

Changes in self-reported knowledge, attitudes, confidence, intent to change practice (questions included in the post participation questionnaire). Retrospective pre-post survey.

The scale is named "Sleep Questions for Retrospective Pre-Post Survey". The minimum value is 10 and the maximum value is 55. A higher score indicates more confidence in sleep health knowledge (a better outcome).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Provider Feasibility (time spent)1-14 days

Monitor access and completion of modules by measuring the time spent on each module for each provider through the online portal.

Provider Feedback on Drafted Content1-14 days

Feedback on their participation and their use of content, sleep health material.

Provider Feasibility (number of modules)1-14 days

Monitor access and completion of modules by counting the number of modules accessed and/or completed for each provider through the online portal.

Provider Acceptability1-14 days

Sample questions BTS-HP experience survey (e.g. questions: How was easy the training to use? How was this training in anticipatory guidance?

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