NCT04185818

Citizen Science: The People's Trial: A Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The People's trial is an online pragmatic, randomised controlled trial to determine if reading a book in bed makes a difference to sleep in comparison to not reading a book in bed.

Detailed description

The People's Trial seeks to help enhance the public's understanding of randomised trials by facilitating the involvement of the public in the trial research process. The public have, through an online format, guided the development and design of The People's Trial randomised controlled trial. The People's trial is a parallel, online randomised controlled trial to determine if reading a book in bed makes a difference to sleep in comparison to not reading a book in bed. Members of the public will be recruited through online platforms. Informed consent will be obtained from all participants prior to trial registration. Consent forms will be provided online prior to registration for The People's Trial. Participants will be required to acknowledge that they have read the consent form and give consent to proceed with trail registration. Participants will be randomly allocated into one of two groups: Group 1: Reading a book in bed Group 2: Not reading a book in bed

Conditions

• Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Reading a book	Participants requested to specify usual genre of book they read. 1. Fiction 2. Non-Fiction 3. Other 4. Don't usually read a book in bed

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-04
• Primary completion: 2020-02-29
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2019-12-04
• Last updated: 2020-01-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland