A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children

Summary

The main goal of this study is to evaluate the "SIESTA" intervention, a culturally and contextually tailored sleep hygiene intervention that has the potential to exert greater improvements in sleep hygiene and sleep outcomes for group that may be more vulnerable to poor sleep health.

The main question is: do SIESTA participants have improved sleep outcomes, sleep hygiene behaviors and less sleep-related impairment compared to Control Group participants?

Participants randomized to the SIESTA intervention will:

1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sleep hygiene education sessions
2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

Participants randomized to the Child Health Control condition will:

1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sessions covering general health topics
2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

A secondary goal of the study is to conduct a process evaluation to prepare for future larger scale use of the intervention in other urban school settings. This will entail assessing Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) of the program through several methods, such as by conducting in-depth interviews with research participants and their parents/guardians, as well as school staff and by looking at rates of participation in the program.

Conditions

• Sleep
• Sleep Quality
• Intervention Study
• Ethnic Minority

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SIESTA

Active condition

BEHAVIORAL

Sleep education and health education control

Attention Control

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Puerto Rico

  collaborator OTHER

• Rhode Island Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD · Alpert Medical School of Brown University

• Ligia Chavez, PhD · University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

11 Years

Max Age

13 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-06-25

Primary Completion

2029-03-31

Completion

2029-03-31

Countries

• United States
• Puerto Rico

Study Locations