Study to Evaluate Efficacy of Brief Behavioral and Sleep Hygiene Education With Mindfulness Intervention on Sleep Quality
Condition: Sleep
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Sleep plays a fundamental role in both mental- and physical-health, with good sleep health
      including adequate duration and quality, appropriate timing, regularity, and absence of sleep
      disorders. The purpose of this study is to evaluate sleep in adolescent and if brief
      behavioral and sleep hygiene education with mindfulness intervention improves, sleep timing,
      sleep duration, sleep quality, anxiety/depression, and quality of life.

      During adolescence extensive physiological changes happen that make it easier for adolescents
      to stay up later, that may increase the time it may take them to fall-asleep and developing
      insomnia symptoms. At the same time psychosocial changes happen, that may may even have been
      further amplified in the last decade, with increase in social media use and evening
      screen-time. As sleep need is not decreased and with adolescents having to wake up at
      "socially acceptable times" rather than the endogenous sleep offset time, sleep duration may
      be shortened causing chronic sleep loss and daytime sleepiness. Insufficient sleep in
      adolescents may affect their daytime functioning, causing fatigue and memory issues, affect
      school attendance and academic performance, affect mood, mental- and physical health, cause
      behavioral dysfunction and has been associated with worse health outcomes, adverse risk
      behaviors and even increase risk for accidents.This study should advance understanding of
      sleep in adolescents and if this simple interventions can be effective in improving their
      sleep and mental health. If effective larger studies will be needed to evaluate if there
      might be a value in implementing changes in the infrastructure of the educational system to
      better support sleep and mental health of adolescent.
    

Detailed description: 
      The study is a prospective cross-sectional study implementing a brief behavioral and sleep
      hygiene education with mindfulness intervention in adolescents in the age-range of
      16-19-years interested to participate and willing to sign a consent. Sleep duration, sleep
      timing and sleep quality will be measured with objective home sleep test for three (3)
      week-nights and two (2) weekend-nights and sleep, anxiety and depression symptoms will be
      evaluated with subjective questionnaires before starting the 4-week intervention. After the
      4-week intervention sleep, anxiety and depression symptoms will be evaluated again using both
      the objective home sleep test and questionnaires to measure if the intervention improved
      sleep timing, duration and/or quality as well as symptoms of anxiety and depression.
    

Intervention name(s): Brief behavioral sleep therapy, sleep hygiene education and mindfulness training
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): Brief behavioral sleep therapy, sleep hygiene education and mindfulness training using breathing exercises and Yoga Nidra
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Other