Design and Usability Testing of a Tailored Intervention to Increase Awareness About Sleep and Sleep Disorders Among Transportation Workers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 38
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in OSA self-management efficacy as measured by the Survey of OSA Functional Health Literacy (SOFHL)
研究概览
简要总结
The objective of this protocol is to conduct a focus group to identify OSA beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge among employees in the transportation industry on shift schedules.
详细描述
Transportation shift workers (TSW, e.g., overnight, on-call, or rotating) have been identified as a high-risk group for health conditions (e.g., obesity, cardiovascular disease). Also, TSW are at risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). According to one study, approximately 36% of TSWs have OSA, a condition that exacerbates health risks and daytime sleepiness. A recent report from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) showed that those with untreated OSA cost on average $4,261 more than those without OSA. Also concerning, workers with OSA who are non-adherent to recommended OSA treatment (i.e., continuous positive airway pressure, CPAP) are at particularly high risk for motor vehicle accidents compared to those who are adherent.
This protocol outlines focus groups that will aim to identify knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about OSA among TSW. Results of these focus groups will be used in future research to design a tailored website for relaying OSA information to TSW.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age 18 years or older
- •Access to a smartphone device
- •Commitment to completing all study activities
- •Score 4 or higher (mild or higher on OSA risk) according to the Apnea Risk Evaluation System (ARES) questionnaire.
排除标准
- •Significant medical or psychiatric illness according to the PROMIS Short Form (SF-12)
- •No OSA risk (a score below 4 on the ARES).
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
Participants will receive the personalized OSA messages.
干预措施: Personalized OSA messages (Behavioral)
Control
Placebo participants will receive no treatment during the experiment.
干预措施: Control (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in OSA self-management efficacy as measured by the Survey of OSA Functional Health Literacy (SOFHL)
时间窗: The SOFHL will be administered at baseline and post-intervention. Change in SOFHL score on self-management efficacy will be computed by comparing responses at baseline and post-intervention.
OSA self-management efficacy will be examined using the SOFHL
次要结局
- Change in Daytime sleepiness as measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS).(Sleepiness will be assessed at baseline and post-intervention. Change in daytime sleepiness will be computed by comparing responses at baseline and post-intervention..)
- Change in Attentional Failures as measured by previously validated questions assessing Attentional Failures.(Attentional failures will be measured at baseline and post-intervention.Change in attentional failures will be computed by comparing responses at baseline and follow-up.)
- Change in OSA general knowledge as measured by the SOFHL.(The SOFHL will be administered at baseline and post-intervention. Change in SOFHL score on OSA general knowledge will be computed by comparing responses at baseline and post-intervention.)
研究者
Rebecca Robbins
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical Scool and Associate Scientist at Brigham & Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital