Online Sleep Education for College Student's Sleep Health and Executive Functioning

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if asynchronous psychoeducational sleep intervention works to improve college students' levels of self-reported sleep health literacy, sleep quality, and executive functioning.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Can an educational sleep intervention improve college students' sleep health literacy and sleep quality? Does improved sleep health literacy impact sleep quality? Does improved sleep improve executive functioning in a college student sample?

The hypotheses of the present study include the following:

* College students with poor sleep quality will have lower executive functioning
* College students who participate in a brief educational sleep intervention will have more improvements in sleep health literacy compared to college students who do not
* College students who participate in a brief educational sleep intervention will have more improvements in sleep quality compared to college students who do not
* College students who participate in a brief educational sleep intervention will have more improvements in executive functioning compared to college students who do not.

Researchers will compare the intervention group to a wait-list control group to see if college students who watch the psychoeducational sleep intervention have more improvements in sleep quality, sleep health literacy, and executive functioning than those who do not.

Participants will:

* Complete a pre-intervention survey
* Respond to a post-intervention survey six weeks after the pre-intervention survey
* Be randomly assigned to watch a 30-to 45-minute psychoeducational sleep lecture video either during the pre-intervention survey or after the post-intervention survey

Conditions

• Sleep
• Executive Functioning
• Sleep Hygiene
• Health Literacy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducational Sleep Intervention

The present study uses a 30-to 45-minute psychoeducational sleep lecture that is tailored to college students. The lecture reviews topics such as sleep information, trends among college students, and consequences of poor sleep (e.g., on psychosocial, cognitive, and academic functioning). The lecture also includes information about sleep hygiene and stimulus control instructions to provide students with resources for implementing adaptive sleep hygiene behaviors that promote better sleep and functioning. This intervention will be embedded within the pre-intervention survey packet for participants who are randomly assigned to the intervention arm. Participants assigned to the no intervention arm will be granted access to the intervention at the conclusion of the post-intervention survey packet.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Northern Arizona University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Marie-Christine Goodworth, PhD · Northern Arizona University

• Kiley D Hawkins, B.S. · Northern Arizona University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2026-09-30

Primary Completion

2026-12-31

Completion

2027-05-31