NCT01428687

Short Term Effects of Increasing Sleep Duration

Increasing Sleep Duration: A Novel Approach to Weight Control

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Miriam Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A series of studies are proposed to develop an intervention to increase sleep duration and study the effects on eating, exercise, and weight control. The hypothesis is that increasing sleep duration will help improve weight loss and maintenance.

Detailed description

Study 1 is conducted in a sleep laboratory. Participants sleep short duration (approximately four hours per night) on one weekend and long duration (approximately nine hours per night) on another weekend. Study 2 is examining ways to increase sleep duration in overweight individuals with short sleep and examining the effects on short term weight loss. Study 3 is comparing a standard weight loss program with a novel Sleep+Weight Loss intervention.

Conditions

• Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sleep Duration	Subjects are taught sleep hygiene strategies to increase their sleep; they record their sleep in a diary and wear an actigraph and call in their sleep to the office each day.
BEHAVIORAL	No change in sleep	This group is taught to maintain their current sleep habits.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2011-09-05
• Last updated: 2016-08-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States