Sleep Assessment: The Benefits of Identifying Sleep Disturbance Using a Sleep Questionnaire

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Sleep Disturbance
• Interventions: Other: Sleep assessment score; Other: No Score

• Registration Number: NCT06074224
• Lead Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Brief Summary

The investigators are interested in measuring the influence of addressing sleep in the orthopedic setting. This includes assessing patient experience measures (satisfaction with the visit, perceived empathy, communication effectiveness) as well as greater engagement in their healthcare (patient activation). The investigators will also see what factors might be associated with sleep disturbance and if addressing sleep leads to an intervention such as cognitive behavioral therapy.

Detailed Description

All adult (18+ years old) new patients seeing a musculoskeletal specialist will be invited to enroll. For the purposes of this trial, The investigators will include people with lesser degrees of sleep disturbance including anyone with a score greater than 3. For people that are enrolled in the trial, the researcher will record the PSQI score and enter at the first page of survey filled out by the patient after meeting. P The patients in the intervention group will include those for whom their clinician was given their sleep questionnaire result before the visit. The control group will include patients whose clinicians do not view the results, simulating usual care. Patients in both groups will fill out a survey entailing demographics, sleep quality, JSPPPE.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-01
• Study First Submitted: 2023-09-28
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-10-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-05
• Study First Posted: 2023-10-10
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-10
• Primary Completion: 2023-11-01
• Study Completion: 2023-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 54

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Clinician with Scores	Sleep assessment score	The patients in the intervention group will include those for whom their clinician was given their sleep questionnaire result before the visit.
Clinician without Scores	No Score	The control group will include patients whose clinicians do not view the results, simulating usual care.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Jefferson Scale of Patient's Perceptions of Physician Empathy	through study completion, an average of 6 months	The Jefferson Scale of Patient's Perceptions of Physician Empathy includes five 7-point scale questions and higher scores indicated greater perceived clinician empathy.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

University of Texas Health Austin; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

University of Texas Health Austin (UTHA); 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States