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NCT Number: NCT06455579

Bedtime Stories: A Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Sleep Behavior Health Behavior Health-Related Behavior

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Boston Children's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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)

Treatment and study plan

Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for community healthcare providers (BTS-HP)

Behavioral

The sleep health education program includes 6 educational modules on different topics related to sleep health: (1) Basics of Sleep, 2) Sleep and Development, 3) Sleep Health, 4) Consequences of Deficient Sleep, 5) Sleep Health Disparities, and 6) Sleep Screening and Evaluation.

Primary outcomes

  1. Provider knowledge, perceptions, and practices of sleep health

    Time frame: 1-14 days

    Changes in self-reported knowledge, attitudes, confidence, intent to change practice (questions included in the post participation questionnaire). Retrospective pre-post survey.

    The scale is named "Sleep Questions for Retrospective Pre-Post Survey". The minimum value is 10 and the maximum value is 55. A higher score indicates more confidence in sleep health knowledge (a better outcome).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Provider Acceptability

    Time frame: 1-14 days

    Sample questions BTS-HP experience survey (e.g. questions: How was easy the training to use? How was this training in anticipatory guidance?

  2. Provider Feasibility (number of modules)

    Time frame: 1-14 days

    Monitor access and completion of modules by counting the number of modules accessed and/or completed for each provider through the online portal.

  3. Provider Feasibility (time spent)

    Time frame: 1-14 days

    Monitor access and completion of modules by measuring the time spent on each module for each provider through the online portal.

  4. Provider Feedback on Drafted Content

    Time frame: 1-14 days

    Feedback on their participation and their use of content, sleep health material.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Boston Children's Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Allan & Gill Gray Foundation

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Jun 12, 2024
Registry last updated
Aug 28, 2025

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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