Digital Sleep Program for College Students with Insomnia

NCT ID: NCT06853106

Last Updated: 2025-02-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

90 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-24

Study Completion Date

2027-07-31

Brief Summary

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This randomized controlled trial (RCT) study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a digital-based multimodal sleep management program compared to a waitlist control group in improving sleep-related outcomes, including insomnia severity, daytime sleepiness, objective sleep parameters, and sleep reactivity to stress, as well as psychological health indices, such as depression, anxiety, and resilience. Additionally, this study seeks to examine the mediating role of different chronotypes in the effectiveness of the sleep intervention on the outcomes of interest.

Detailed Description

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This is a parallel-group, randomized controlled trial (RCT). 90 participants who experiencing insomnia for at least 3 months with college students will be enrolled.

Eligible participants who complete the baseline measurements will be randomly allocated to a digital-based multimodal sleep management program group (N = 45) and a waitlist control group (N = 45).

The primary outcome is insomnia severity, assessed using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). The secondary outcomes include daytime sleepiness, objective sleep parameters, sleep reactivity, resilience, anxiety, and depression, which will be examined using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), a wearable sleep tracker, the Ford Insomnia Response to Stress Test (FIRST), the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Beck Depression Index II (BDI-II), respectively. Additionally, chronotype will be assessed using the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) as a moderating role to be tested in this study. All outcomes will be measured at three time points: T0 (baseline assessment), T1 (immediately after the 4-week intervention period), and T2 (4 weeks after the intervention period).

Conditions

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Insomnia

Keywords

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Anxiety Chronotypes Daytime Sleepiness Depression Digital-based Sleep Management Insomnia Resilience Sleep Reactivity Mindfulness-based Breathing

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors
We will implement a double-masking protocol, ensuring that assessors and data collectors are all blinded to group assignments. Additionally, group assignments will also be masked from the data analyzer to minimize potential bias.

Study Groups

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Waitlist control group

Participants in the waitlist control group will maintain their daily routines without receiving any intervention throughout the experiment.

Group Type OTHER

Waitlist control group

Intervention Type OTHER

The participants in the waitlist control group will be informed that they are on a waiting list during the intervention period, serving as a no-treatment control. They will receive the sleep intervention (i.e., the digital-based sleep management program) four weeks after the intervention period is completed.

digital-based multimodal sleep management program

Participants in the experimental group will receive a 4-week digital-based multimodal sleep management program.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

digital-based multimodal sleep management program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The digital-based multimodal sleep management program consists of (1) sleep hygiene education, (2) sleep restriction, and (3) mindfulness breathing exercises. The program is internet-integrated and delivered via Google Meet, with 45-minute weekly sessions over four weeks. To increase participants' adherence to the sleep management program , the course instructor will request the participants to record their daily sleep diaries (time to bed, time to sleep, wake time during sleep and wake time) and sleep journals(practices of sleep hygiene, sleep restriction and mindfulness breathing exercise) in the mobile app for at least five consecutive days each week.

Interventions

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Waitlist control group

The participants in the waitlist control group will be informed that they are on a waiting list during the intervention period, serving as a no-treatment control. They will receive the sleep intervention (i.e., the digital-based sleep management program) four weeks after the intervention period is completed.

Intervention Type OTHER

digital-based multimodal sleep management program

The digital-based multimodal sleep management program consists of (1) sleep hygiene education, (2) sleep restriction, and (3) mindfulness breathing exercises. The program is internet-integrated and delivered via Google Meet, with 45-minute weekly sessions over four weeks. To increase participants' adherence to the sleep management program , the course instructor will request the participants to record their daily sleep diaries (time to bed, time to sleep, wake time during sleep and wake time) and sleep journals(practices of sleep hygiene, sleep restriction and mindfulness breathing exercise) in the mobile app for at least five consecutive days each week.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Registered as a full-time student
2. Aged 18 to 26 years old
3. Experiencing insomnia for at least three months
4. Currently own and use a personal mobile device
5. Ability to read and speak Chinese
6. Not taking hypnotics, sedatives, or antidepressants
7. Not pregnant or lactating

Exclusion Criteria

1. Using a smartphone model that cannot support the app
2. Currently using other sleep program apps
3. Meeting a STOP-BANG score of ≥3
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

26 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Taipei Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Pei-Shan, Tsai

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Taipei Medicine University

Taipei, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Pei-Shan Tsai, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +886227361661

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Pei-Shan Tsai, PhD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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N202401041

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id