Clinical trial NCT06455579: Bedtime Stories: A Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers
Official title: Bedtime Stories: A Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sleep
Health-Related Behavior
Lead sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Allan & Gill Gray Foundation
First posted: 2024-06-12
Enrollment: 75
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This is a pilot intervention of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for healthcare providers serving school aged children and their caregivers. The intervention uses a pre-post design across participants.

Detailed description: To date, there are no established sleep health education programs for healthcare providers. To address this gap, the investigators previously conducted semi-structured interviews with community-based healthcare providers to improve our knowledge and understanding of healthcare providers' attitudes and beliefs about sleep health, factors that may contribute to poor sleep health, and identify potential sleep health promotion strategies for low income, racial and ethnic minority children and their families. Data from those sessions helped to inform and refine content to develop a sleep health education program for community healthcare providers. The purpose of this protocol it assess the effectiveness of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program in Community Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP).

Healthcare providers from participating community healthcare centers will be invited to participate. Once a healthcare provider expresses interest in participating, they will receive a REDCap link to provide their informed consent. The provider will then complete a short demographic questionnaire via REDCap. Once the healthcare provider consents and completes the short questionnaire, they will receive a secure link to the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP). The BTS-HP is an online sleep health education program supported by the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Education (CE Courses - BCH Education (childrenshospital.org). The provider will also receive access to an educational webinar on Melatonin. The provider can participate all modules and the webinar in one sitting or overtime. Once the provider completes the online modules, they will immediately receive an email with a REDCap link to complete their post-participation questionnaire.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years old or over
* Community Healthcare Provider (physicians, residents, registered nurses, nurse practitioners) at participating community healthcare centers in the Boston area
* Serve families with school-aged (4-10 years of age) children
* English fluency

Exclusion Criteria:

* Community healthcare providers that do not see school-aged children (4-10 years of age)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Provider knowledge, perceptions, and practices of sleep health
timeFrame: 1-14 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Provider Acceptability
timeFrame: 1-14 days
measure: Provider Feasibility (number of modules)
timeFrame: 1-14 days
measure: Provider Feasibility (time spent)
timeFrame: 1-14 days
measure: Provider Feedback on Drafted Content
timeFrame: 1-14 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital
name: Judith Owens, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Owens JA. The practice of pediatric sleep medicine: results of a community survey. Pediatrics. 2001 Sep;108(3):E51. doi: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e51.
citation: Owens JA, Jones C. Parental knowledge of healthy sleep in young children: results of a primary care clinic survey. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2011 Jul-Aug;32(6):447-53. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e31821bd20b.
citation: Meltzer LJ, Mindell JA. Systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral interventions for pediatric insomnia. J Pediatr Psychol. 2014 Sep;39(8):932-48. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsu041. Epub 2014 Jun 19.