NCT02783027

The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial With Air-medical Personnel

Real-time Fatigue Mitigation With Air-medical Personnel: The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 83 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overarching goal of this proposal is to address the MedEvac foundation priority of educational techniques and technologies and improve Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) safety by determining if overall sleep quality and intra-shift fatigue of HEMS clinicians can be improved with real-time assessment and intervention. Aim 1: To determine the short-term impact of an enhanced SleepTrackTXT intervention on HEMS clinician fatigue reported in real-time during and at the end of shift work. Aim 2: To determine the long-term impact of the SleepTrackTXT intervention on sleep quality and sleep health indicators including hours of sleep and recovery between shift work.

Detailed description

The investigators will examine short term impact by examining self-reported fatigue captured at the start, during, and end of scheduled shifts. The investigators will determine longer-term impact on sleep quality by comparing scores on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) taken at baseline and then again at 4 months.

Conditions

• Poor Quality Sleep
• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SleepTrackTXT2	Participants that report high levels of fatigue, sleepiness, or difficulty with concentration during shift work (intra-shift) will receive tailored text-messages promoting adoption of behaviors that can improve alertness during shift work. Participants will also receive a summary of their sleep debt once a week and suggestions for paying back sleep debt. Participants will also have access to a graphic summary of their sleep hours over previous 30-days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2016-05-26
• Last updated: 2019-12-26
• Results posted: 2019-12-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States