NCT05108194

Feasibility of a Personalized SMS Intervention for Insomnia

Feasibility of a Personalized Short Message Service Intervention for Insomnia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Missouri, St. Louis · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this research is to establish a proof of concept for optimizing and evaluating a personalized SMS intervention based for individuals with chronic sleep problems.

Detailed description

Insomnia is a pervasive disorder affecting approximately 10-40% of the U.S. population in a given year. In addition, insomnia has been identified as a transdiagnostic symptom that cuts across numerous other psychological disorders. Interventions that target disordered sleep may attenuate symptomatic distress for a multitude of psychological disorders, making it a potentially potent intervention target with broad public health potential. Despite the ubiquity of the problem, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit actually receive the most effective intervention for insomnia, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). Emerging research has pointed to the possibility of monitoring behavior and delivering personalized interventions to specific individuals via mobile devices. Personalized and adaptive interventions delivered via Short Message Service (SMS) provide a relatively simple solution to prompt individuals to engage in personalized interventions outside the context of opening or downloading a mobile mental health app. The content of text messages have the capacity to modulate behavior via prompts, motivational messages, and "nudges." By using brief, motivational messages based on evidence-based treatment for sleep (e.g. CBT-I), there is the potential to reduce dysfunctional sleep patterns at scale.

Conditions

• Insomnia
• Sleep Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SMS Personalized Sleep Intervention	All participants will be enrolled in the intervention to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the SMS-PSI. After the data training and validation phase, participants will be provided with at least one and up to three daily text messages that offer users a specific strategy based on strategies from CBTi. All participants will have access to a "user dashboard", which is a web-app that includes personalized sleep-tracking information and the opportunity to customize their messaging. The person-level acceptability and adherence to the sleep strategies will be evaluated via self-report endorsement from daily diary and whether users added suggestions to their calendars. Both adherence and acceptability will be collected and integrated with the selection algorithm to optimize subsequent SMS suggestions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-01
• Completion: 2022-06-01
• First posted: 2021-11-04
• Last updated: 2022-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States