NCT02961400

Improving Memory for Sleep Treatment Content With Text Messages

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A drop off in improvement over the months and years after treatment is common. One contributor may be poor memory for the contents of treatment. This study seeks to determine whether text messages containing reminders of the content of sessions will improve treatment outcomes.

Detailed description

The growth in the use of technology provides an opportunity to send reminders to participants via text messages. The early studies on text messaging interventions indicate this approach is enjoyable for participants and has positive effects across a range of domains and treatment types. Hence, this study will test whether text messages containing reminders of the content of sessions will improve treatment outcomes. Two text messaging methods will also be tested. One is to send text messages to remind participants of their goals (PUSH condition) and the second is to send text messages to remind participants to recall their goals (PULL condition). This study will be conducted within the context of an NICHD-funded Randomized Controlled Trial (grant number R01-HD071065; protocol registration ID NCT01828320). In R01-HD071065 adolescents ages 10-18 (n = 176) will receive either the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention (TranS-C) or a Psychoeducation (PE). At the 6-month follow-up assessment for R01-HD071065, participants will be randomized using 3 (PUSH text messages, PULL text messages, or no text messages) x 2 (TranS-C or PE) design. At the 6-month follow-up assessment, a questionnaire will also be administered to establish baseline memory for treatment. Participants will be sent text messages once per week until they return for the 12 month follow-up assessment for R01-HD071065. At the 12 month follow-up assessment, participants will be asked to complete the same memory for treatment questionnaire completed at the 6 month follow-up assessment as well as a questionnaire evaluating the acceptability of the text message reminders. This research is a first step toward identifying whether an inexpensive and ubiquitous technology (i.e., text messaging) can improve memory for treatment.

Conditions

• Sleep Wake Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	PUSH text messages	The intervention is designed to remind participants of treatment components.
OTHER	PULL text messages	The intervention is designed to remind participants to recall treatment components.
BEHAVIORAL	TranS-C	The Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention (TranS-C) integrates evidence-based treatments derived from basic research on the circadian system.
BEHAVIORAL	PE	Psychoeducation on the inter-associations between sleep, diet, exercise and stress.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2016-11-11
• Last updated: 2019-10-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States