Effects of Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sleep Habit, Good; Sleep Hygiene; Health Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: One-time educational video plus automated text messaging; Behavioral: One-time educational video

• Registration Number: NCT05483920
• Lead Sponsor: Black Hills State University

Brief Summary

This will be a study looking at trying to change community-dwelling older adults' behavior in regard to good sleep hygiene practices. Investigators will assess the efficacy through subjective outcome measures and objective physiological markers of good sleep through data collected with wearable technology devices.

Detailed Description

Community-dwelling older adults will be recruited and placed into one of two groups. Group one will watch a one-time educational video on sleep hygiene and group two will watch the video plus be sent daily automated text messages to reinforce the education learned in the video. The participants will receive the text messages for a total of 4 weeks. The control group will not receive any intervention during this time frame. Following the initial meeting, all participants will wear the sleep tracker on their wrists during the day and night for 4 weeks. The sleep tracker will monitor the physiological markers of sleep provided by wearable technology on sleep efficiency, time in bed, time actually sleeping, and time spent at each stage of sleep. At the end of the 4-week study period, the researchers will once again meet with each participant. The participant will complete the following questionnaires once again.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-07-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-07-29
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-02
• Study Start: 2023-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-05-30
• Results First Submitted: 2023-06-12
• Study Completion: 2023-08-01
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-02-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-14
• Results First Posted: 2024-03-15
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Any adult between the ages of 50 and 80 will be recruited for the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Anyone with a diagnosed sleep disorder such as insomnia or obstructive sleep apnea, and the inability to wear any sleep tracking device on their wrist.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
One-time educational video plus automated text messaging	One-time educational video plus automated text messaging	A one-time educational video on best practices for sleep hygiene plus daily automated text messages to reinforce habit.
One-time educational video	One-time educational video	A one-time educational video on best practices for good sleep hygiene

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Sleep Hygiene Index	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for good sleep hygiene. Scores range from 0-52. Higher scores equate to worse sleep hygiene.
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for average pain levels. Scores range from 0-10. Higher scores equate to higher pain levels.
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for quality of sleep. Score ranges 0-21 with higher score equaling poor sleep quality
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for average daytime sleepiness. Scores range from 0-24. Higher scores equate to worse daytime sleepiness.
Change Score From Baseline to 4-weeks for Participants' Sleep Efficiency Using Wearable Technology.	Baseline, 4-week follow up	Sleep efficiency scores will be calculated using a sleep tracker device and are defined as time spent in bed versus time spent actually sleeping. 85% or higher is considered normal sleep efficiency. The average sleep efficiency score for the first three days at baseline and average sleep efficiency from the last 3 days of the 4 week study period will be used to gather the change score.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change Scores From Baseline to 4-week Follow up for Participant's Body Mass Index	baseline and 4-week follow up	Body mass index is measured by body weight \[kg\]/ height \[m\]2) from weight and height measurements to determine healthy body anthropometrics. Normal value is 18.5 to 24.9. Above these values is considered overweight and obese, under this is considered underweight.
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Perceived Stress Scale	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for average stress levels. Scores range from 0-40. The higher the score the worse the stress levels.
Change Score From Baseline to 4-week Follow up on the Patient Specific Functional Scale	Baseline and 4-week follow up	Outcome measure for overall function. The participant chooses three functional day-to-day activities that they regularly participate in and they rate those activities from 0-10 on ease or difficulty of completing. 0 indicates unable to perform the activity, and 10 indicates no problem with the activity. The total score is calculated by adding all three activity scores and dividing by the number of activities listed for a total score ranging from 0-10.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Black Hills State University; 🇺🇸 Spearfish, South Dakota, United States