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A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children

Rhode Island Hospital · with National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), University of Puerto Rico · NCT06942455

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 11–13 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
300
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
June 25, 2025
Record last updated
September 4, 2026

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What the study is about

The main goal of this study is to evaluate the "SIESTA" intervention, a culturally and contextually tailored sleep hygiene intervention that has the potential to exert greater improvements in sleep hygiene and sleep outcomes for group that may be more vulnerable to poor sleep health.

The main question is: do SIESTA participants have improved sleep outcomes, sleep hygiene behaviors and less sleep-related impairment compared to Control Group participants?

Participants randomized to the SIESTA intervention will:

  • Attend 4 remotely administered group sleep hygiene education sessions
  • Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
  • Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
  • Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

Participants randomized to the Child Health Control condition will:

  • Attend 4 remotely administered group sessions covering general health topics
  • Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
  • Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
  • Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

A secondary goal of the study is to conduct a process evaluation to prepare for future larger scale use of the intervention in other urban school settings. This will entail assessing Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) of the program through several methods, such as by conducting in-depth interviews with research participants and their parents/guardians, as well as school staff and by looking at rates of participation in the program.

Being studied: SIESTA; Sleep education and health education control

Conditions: Sleep; Sleep Quality; Intervention Study; Ethnic Minority

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • children must be middle schoolers between 11-13 years old, live and go to school in one of the targeted school districts and sleep no more than 9 hours on an average night

Exclusion Criteria

  • Children are not eligible to take part in the study if they have a medical, psychiatric, or developmental condition and/or are taking medicine for any condition that might affect their ability to and comfort with taking part in the study.

Recruiting US locations

  • Rhode Island Hospital

    Providence, RI 02903

    Site contact: Sheryl J Kopel, MSc · +1-401-444-7217 · sjkopel@brownhealth.org

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Sheryl J Kopel, MSc · +1-401-444-7217 · Sheryl_Kopel@brown.edu
  • Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD · +1-401-793-8632 · Daphne_Koinis-Mitchell@brown.edu
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