Clinical trial NCT05102175: Addressing Health Disparities in African Americans - Exploring Sleep and Developing Interventions
Official title: Addressing Health Disparities in African Americans - Exploring Sleep and Developing Interventions
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Sleep
Keywords: African American
Sleep
Research Participation
Lead sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
First posted: 2021-11-01
Enrollment: 36
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: African Americans residing in Greater Baton Rouge area will be invited to participate in the study.

Brief summary: The purpose of the HD-SLEEP1 study is to help researchers understand what African Americans know and think about sleep. The investigators also want to know how to encourage people to participate in research studies designed to improve sleep.

Detailed description: African Americans (AAs) sleep worse than whites on average, thus contributing to race disparities in major health outcomes. However, contributors to poorer sleep and effective interventions to improve sleep among AAs is lacking due to under-representation of AAs in sleep research. The investigators propose to address this knowledge gap through engagement with the Baton Rouge African American community. The investigators will use focus groups to determine sleep-related perceptions as well as barriers to sleep research recruitment and retention.

In this study, up to 60 African Americans who self-report poor sleep will be invited to participate in focus group discussions to understand 1) sleep related perceptions; 2) factors influencing participation; and 3) willingness to undertake study procedures typical of sleep research studies such as increasing sleep duration, diagnosing and treating OSA; along with other routine research procedures including blood draws, caloric restriction, and body composition exams.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Self-identified African American
* Age range: \>18 years (inclusive)
* Sex: Both males and females will be allowed to participate in the study
* Self-perceived poor sleep
* Willing to be audio and video recorded

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to provide written informed consent
* Unable to understand English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Importance of Sleep
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Knowledge related to components of good sleep
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Perceived advantages related to participating in sleep-related
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Identify what challenges prevents participation in sleep-related research
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Identify facilitators to participation in sleep research
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Baton Rouge
country: United States
facility: Recruiting core Pennington
state: Louisiana
Study officials:
affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center
name: Prachi Singh, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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