Recovery Enhancement and Sleep Training

Summary

Evidence suggests that student athletes frequently experience sleep problems and are aware of the impact of sleep loss on mental and physical outcomes. As such, student athletes are motivated to improve sleep quality in order to improve their outcomes for overall athletic performance. This study will consist of two parts. The first part will be a survey. Fall athletes arrive in the summer, and Part 1 will invite 200 of these athletes to complete a survey within the first week of their arrival on campus. The survey will assess multiple domains of student-athlete health, namely, sleep duration and quality, mood and depression, stress, and mental and physical well-being. The responses to the survey will be confidential, and students will be compensated for the survey. At the end of the semester, students will be invited to complete the survey again.

Part 2 is an intervention. 40 of the 200 students will be chosen to participate in the intervention, based on predetermined criteria. The intervention will include an information session where students may ask questions. Students will be sent text message reminders about adherence to the program and will be asked to monitor their sleep quality with sleep diaries. The intervention will consist of the half of the 40 chosen students, (20 students), who will be provided with blue blocking glasses, a bright light-emitting diode (LED) light, and a fit bit. Please note that all of these items are commercially available and are not meant to be used to treat or prevent human illness nor injury and do not require FDA oversight. The blue-blocking glasses will ensure that blue light from electronic devices will not interfere with circadian rhythm or sleep onset, and allow students to fall asleep earlier. The bright LED light will provide bright blue light in the morning to help students wake and an amber light to promote earlier bedtimes. The Fitbit will estimate sleep and physical activity as well as adherence to the program.

Conditions

• Sleep
• Performance
• Mental Health
• Stress
• Anxiety

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sleep Diary

All 40 chosen students will be provided a link to complete a daily sleep diary for 10 weeks. Sleep diary will assess activity before bed, bedtime, time to fall asleep, number of awakenings, time awake after sleep onset, time out of bed, time of final awakening, perceived sleep quality. Diary also asks about naps taken during the day, caffeine and tobacco consumption, and an additional space for open-ended comments from the participant.

DEVICE

Fitness tracker

All 40 chosen students will receive a fitness tracker. The fit bit will estimate sleep and physical activity as well as adherence to the program. participants will have access to their own data. Data will also be monitored from the lab using Fitabase which provides access to day, hour, and minute-level resolution of data for steps taken, intensity class, calories burned, and sleep (length, movement, and quality).

DEVICE

Blue-Blocking Glasses

Half of the 40 chosen students (N=20) will be provided with blue blocking glasses. The blue-blocking glasses will ensure that blue light from electronic devices will not interfere with circadian rhythm or sleep onset, and allow students to fall asleep earlier.

DEVICE

LED light

Half of the 40 chosen students (N=20) will be provided with a bright LED light. The bright LED light will provide bright blue light in the morning to help students wake and an amber light to promote earlier bedtimes.

OTHER

Information Session

all 40 participants will attend a 1-hour information session about sleep delivered by the PIs, to be followed by a 1-hour Q\&A period. Peer educators will receive and extra 1-hour training session on how to handle questions and when to refer back to the PIs.

BEHAVIORAL

Text messages

All participants will receive text messages in the evening that will include adherence reminders, encouraging statements, and tips for improving sleep. Messages will be randomized, with no more than 3 messages of any type per week. Messages will serve as a cue to action without being overly repetitive or predictable.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Collegiate Athletic Association - NCAA

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Arizona

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-06-30

Primary Completion

2017-01-04

Completion

2017-01-05