Clinical trial NCT06989619: Leveraging Social Networks to Improve Sleep and Mindfulness Among Older Adults in Residential Housing Facilities
Official title: Leveraging Social Networks to Improve Sleep and Mindfulness Among Older Adults in Residential Housing Facilities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Aging
Cognitive Impairment
Sleep
Keywords: Sleep health
Healthy lifestyle
Behavioral intervention
Lead sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2025-05-25
Enrollment: 45
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 55
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to design a sleep and mindfulness intervention to improve sleep, quality of life, and cognitive function among older adults.

Detailed description: The proposed R34 planning grant will the design and adapt a sleep, mindfulness, and sleep disorders education intervention entitled to cognitively unimpaired older adults residing in housing facilities. Novel, social network techniques will be used to identify opinion leaders who will assist with message dissemination. This grant will adapt content from an existing, evidence-based Sleep Health Program to the needs of older adults. In addition, the adapted Sleep Health Program will be coupled with Mindfulness content then disseminated in a small pilot study to ascertain feasibility and acceptability of the proposed novel social network approach for deploying the adapted Sleep Health and Mindfulness Program in a planned R01. The data collected in this R34 will include qualitative interview and usability interview data where cognitively unimpaired older adults will be recruited and asked to provide input to the messages and approach. Target outcomes will also be collected in the planned pilot, including survey responses to sleep, sleep disorders evaluation/care, quality of life, and cognition. Finally, FitBit data will also be captured for 2 weeks at several time points during the pilot study (baseline, 2-months, and 6-months).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Older adults (age 55 years of age and above) residing in residential facilities.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Severe cognitive impairment according to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time it takes to recruit
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
measure: Sessions attended
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
measure: Proportion of participants who complete the program
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The score of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
measure: The Score of the Dementia Quality of Life (DEMQOL)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
measure: The Score of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2-months, and 6-months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Brigham and Women's Hospital
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: PhD
name: Rebecca Robbins, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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