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Bedtime Routines and Children's Health

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Dental Caries
Sleep
Asthenopia
Myopia
Interventions
Behavioral: Bedtime routine
Behavioral: Control
Registration Number
NCT05201924
Lead Sponsor
National Taiwan University
Brief Summary

In Taiwan, the prevalence of sleep problems, myopia, and dental caries in school-age children is high. Little is known regarding the implementation of oral and vision health outcomes around bedtime. A bedtime routine intervention was conducted to improve children's oral, vision and sleep health.

Detailed Description

Background: In Taiwan, the prevalence of sleep problems, myopia, and dental caries in school-age children is high. Recent studies show that there are some linkages between sleep, myopia, and dental caries; however, most of the studies were observational studies and lack of interventional studies. In addition, little is known regarding the implementation of oral and vision health outcomes around bedtime. Establishing beneficial bedtime routines is recommended for improving health-related outcomes. Brush-Book-Bed (BBB), a bedtime routine program proposed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, has been widely applied in Western countries as a bedtime guideline. Therefore, in current research, researchers will apply the concept of BBB into practice with primary caregivers with the hope to improve sleep, dental health, and vision health outcomes.

Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of a BBB intervention group to control groups in school-age children.

Method: This study is a pilot interventional study. A total of 200 first graders will be allocated to either the intervention group or the control group. Inclusion criteria include (1) sleep duration less than 9 hours or more than 11 hours (2) average bedtime later than 9:30 p.m. Exclusion criteria include (1) intellectual disability prior to pre-school age diagnosed by physicians (2) special education students (3) less than 15 school day per month (4) medications used that influence sleep (5) congenital eye diseases (6) dental emergencies. Individual permuted block randomization will be used for the assignment. Intervention includes bedtime brushing, limited sugar consumption around bedtime, reading books instead of using screen devices before bed, setting a regular bedtime, turning off the light, and reaching a 9 to 11-hour sleep duration. Researchers will send interactive reminder messages periodically to maintain participants' compliance. Sleep questionnaires include CSHQ, modified Bedtime Routine Questionnaires, a sleep diary, Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale, Questionnaire, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Oral hygiene evaluation includes salivary pH value and salivary flow rate. The near vision test and refractive error are evaluated as myopia measurements. Asthenopia pictures and critical flicker fusion frequency are used to measure subjective eye fatigue. Moreover, a self-administered questionnaire related to sleep, oral hygiene, and vision health is also measured. Intervention Feasibility will be asked with open-ended questionnaires immediately after the intervention. Data analyses will be conducted using SPSS Statistics 22.0. The findings of this pilot study will provide the basis for developing a tailored bedtime routine for Taiwanese children. which can be applied in further interventional studies. In addition, outcome indicators can act as proxies, early detection if potential risks of sleep problems, and vision or oral diseases.

Estimated Result: School-age children who receive BBB intervention will have significantly better health-related outcomes than those without after the intervention, the third and sixth months post-intervention.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
160
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Children whose average bedtime later than 9:30 pm
  2. Children who sleep less than 9 hours or more than 11 hours
Exclusion Criteria
  1. intellectual disability prior to pre-school age diagnosed by physicians
  2. special education students
  3. less than 15 school day per month
  4. medications used that influence sleep
  5. congenital eye diseases
  6. dental emergencies

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Bedtime routineBedtime routineA bedtime routine intervention handbook and check list, including bedtime brushing, limited sugar consumption around bedtime, reading books instead of using screen devices before bed, setting a regular bedtime, turning off the light, and reaching a 9 to 11-hour sleep duration
control groupControlhealthy lifestyle checklist
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
the change of bedtime activities and sleep patterns7 days at baseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

self-administered sleep diary, including sleep patterns, screen device use 2 hours before bedtime, caffine food intake

the change of bedtime routinesbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

Bedtime routine questionnaire (Handerson \& Jordan, 2010): the subscale of bedtime consistency and bedtime adaptive activities

the change of children's sleep habitsthree month post intervention and six month post intervention

Children's sleep habits questionnaire, CSHQ (Owens et al., 2000). Higher score means more disturbed sleep. The internal consistency for both the community sample was 0.68; alpha coefficients for the various subscales of the CSHQ ranged from 0.36 (Parasomnias) to 0.70 (Bedtime Resistance) for the community sample. Test-retest reliability was acceptable (range 0.62 to 0.79).

The change of caregiver's sleep qualitybaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI (Buysse et al., 1989). The global PSQI score greater than 5 yielded a diagnostic sensitivity of 89.6% and specificity of 86.5% (kappa = 0.75, p less than 0.001) in distinguishing good and poor sleepers.

The change of caregiver's daytime sleepinessbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

Epworth Sleepiness Scale, ESS (Johns et al., 1991). The internal consistency as measured by Cronbach's alpha was 0.88. Higher scores means more daytimes sleepiness.

The change of pediatric daytime sleepinessbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness (Drake et al., 2003). Scores ranged from 0 to 32. Mean score values in the original study were 15.3 ± 6.2. Higher scores indicate greater sleepiness.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
the change of myopiabaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

near vision eye chart

the change of stereopsisbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

stereo book

the change of objective Asthenopiabaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

handy flicker for critical fusion frequency test. Normal CFF ranged between 30 to 50 Hz

the change of subjective Asthnopiabaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

self-administered pictures for eye symptoms. Higher score means more eye fatigue.

the change of oral pHbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention; before bedtime after brushing and rising time before brushing

pH values was tested using MACHEREY-NAGEL pH strips.

the change of salivary flow ratebaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

Oral Schirmer's test for five minutes before bedtime after brushing and rising time before brushing

the change of health-related cognitionbaseline, three month post intervention and six month post intervention

A total of 21 questionnaires Seven questionnaire were asked for children in eye, teeth and sleep dimension to examine the effectiveness of interventions

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tsai, Han-Yi

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Taipei, Taiwan

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