NCT01508793

Enhancing Sleep Duration: Effects on Children's Eating and Activity Behaviors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Miriam Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed study aims to determine whether an intervention to increase sleep in school-age children is associated with positive changes in eating, activity behaviors and zBMI. One hundred four children 8-11 years old who sleep 9 ½ hours or less per night will be randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions: 1) optimize sleep (increase TIB by 1 ½ hours/night to produce a change in sleep duration of approximately 40 minutes/night), or 2) control (no change in sleep). Families of children in the optimize sleep group will be taught effective behavioral strategies that have been shown to improve sleep duration. At baseline, 2-week and 2-month follow-up, the following will be gathered: sleep duration (measured by actigraphy), food intake (measured by 3 days of 24-hour recall), activity level (measured by accelerometry), the relative reinforcing value (RRV) of food (measured using a validated experimental paradigm), and measured child height and weight.

Conditions

• Sleep
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Optimize Sleep	Children are asked to increase their sleep by approximately 1 1/2 hours/night for the duration of the two month intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2012-01-12
• Last updated: 2021-01-06

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States