Prevention Strategies to Enhance Young Children's Sleep Development - Part 1
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Sleep
- Sponsor
- University of South Carolina
- Enrollment
- 13
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Intervention-related feasibility - intervention fidelity
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this single group trial is to test the feasibility and acceptability of a combined school- and home-based sleep promotion program for young children prior to the kindergarten transition.
Detailed Description
This single group pilot study will test a combined school- and home-based sleep promotion intervention designed to improve young children's sleep and classroom behavior. All participants will receive the intervention. Intervention content will be delivered via text message to parents' phones and in the classroom. The primary aim of this study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention. The secondary aim is to assess the preliminary signal of effect on children's sleep and classroom behavior. Findings from this study will inform any necessary intervention modifications prior to a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Investigators
Sarah Burkart
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Child between the ages of 4-6 years
- •Currently enrolled in a participating school's 4-year-old kindergarten (4K) classroom
- •Parent/guardian willing to complete questionnaires in English
- •Parent/guardian must have access to a mobile phone with texting capability
Exclusion Criteria
- •Parent or child has a medical condition that impairs their ability to participate
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Intervention-related feasibility - intervention fidelity
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4)
Intervention fidelity, the delivery of the intervention as originally planned, will be assessed via teacher report. Intervention fidelity will be assessed with a study-specific questionnaire to assess if all classroom components were delivered as planned.
Intervention-related feasibility - data collection feasibility
Time Frame: Post-intervention (week 5-7)
Feasibility of data collection procedures will be assessed with qualitative feedback from parents during semi-structured interviews following the study.
Trial-related feasibility - recruitment capability
Time Frame: Through recruitment period, up to 6 weeks
Recruitment capability will be measured by the proportion of eligible children who enroll at baseline.
Intervention-related feasibility - participant adherence to intervention (home)
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4)
Adherence to the home-based component will rely on link usage data to assess parent engagement with the online materials. Investigators will extract information related to the number of parents who click links from weekly material and number of parents who do not open links.
Intervention-related feasibility - data collection completion rates
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4)
Data collection completion rates will be calculated to understand the feasibility of data collection protocols.
Trial-related feasibility - retention
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-5)
Retention will be measured by the proportion of enrolled children who remain in the study through the length of the intervention. Reasons for dropout will also be assessed.
Intervention-related feasibility - rate of attendance
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4)
Children's attendance at school during intervention sessions will be provided by class records.
Intervention-related feasibility - participant adherence to intervention (school)
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4)
School-based adherence will be assessed by a teacher-completed survey which will indicate whether or not they implemented the intervention each week.
Acceptability
Time Frame: Weekly through study completion (weeks 1-4), post-intervention (week 5-7)
Acceptability of the intervention conditions is defined as participants' perception that the intervention is satisfactory and will be assessed with short weekly questionnaires for parents and teachers. Overall acceptability will be assessed with an exit-survey consisting of Likert-scale items and open-ended responses to understand likes/dislikes, content, logistics, and feedback for future iterations. Likert-style questions will have response options ranging from 1-5 with greater scores representing higher acceptability.
Secondary Outcomes
- Child cognitive flexibility(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child sleep - Bedtime Routines Questionnaire(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child sleep - device-based duration(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child sleep - device-based timing(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child behavior(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child inhibition(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))
- Child working memory(Baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 5))