NCT05933746

Sleep Hygiene Intervention on Undergraduate Students' Sleep and Stress

The Impact of a Remote, Brief, Sleep Hygiene Intervention on Undergraduate Students' Sleep and Stress: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wayne State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Poor sleep is common among college students and likely contributes to stress. The investigators developed a brief, remotely-delivered intervention and tested whether it improves sleep hygiene and reduced sleep disturbance and stress among undergraduates.

Detailed description

Poor sleep is common among college students and likely contributes to stress. The investigators developed a brief, remotely-delivered sleep hygiene intervention, which is delivered via the internet, and tested in a randomized controlled trial, whether it improves sleep hygiene and reduced sleep disturbance and stress in a sample of undergraduates who report wanting to improve their sleep. This study compares the novel sleep hygiene intervention to an active, matched control condition--sleep education. Baseline and 2-week follow-up questionnaires assess sleep hygiene, sleep disturbance, and stress. ANCOVAs will compare conditions at follow-up, and mediation tests will explore whether the intervention reduced stress through improved sleep.

Conditions

• Stress, Emotional
• Sleep Disturbance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sleep Hygiene Intervention	This 1-hour on-line intervention presents three sleep hygiene modules, selected randomly from among these six: establishing a bedtime routine, optimizing sleep environment, implementing a sleep schedule, bedtime relaxation, nutrition choices, and exercise habits.
BEHAVIORAL	Non-behavioral Sleep Education	1-hour on-line set of three modules that cover non-skill (non-hygiene) educational topics (sleep research, sleep stages, dreams). This control condition equates for engagement rationale.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-15
• Completion: 2022-07-15
• First posted: 2023-07-06
• Last updated: 2023-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States