Leveraging Social Networks to Improve Sleep and Mindfulness Among Older Adults in Residential Housing Facilities

NCT ID: NCT06989619

Last Updated: 2025-05-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 45 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-09-15

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).

Conditions

Aging; Cognitive Impairment; Sleep

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Sleep Health and Mindfulness Program for Older Adults

This grant will develop and design an adapted version of an existing, effective Sleep Health Program, which will be coupled with mindfulness content, to meet the needs and unique barriers older adults in housing facilities face. The modules for the proposed Sleep Health and Mindfulness program will be designed in collaboration with the implementation partner, the City of Boston Age Strong Commission, whose talented leaders and staff have decades of experience designing programs for seniors on a variety of topics, including mindfulness.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Sleep health and mindfulness intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This educational, healthy lifestyle intervention will include several modules detailing sleep health and mindfulness strategies. In addition, opinion leaders will be identified in the population to help diffuse messages through each housing facility.

Interventions

Sleep health and mindfulness intervention

This educational, healthy lifestyle intervention will include several modules detailing sleep health and mindfulness strategies. In addition, opinion leaders will be identified in the population to help diffuse messages through each housing facility.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Brigham and Women's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Rebecca Robbins

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Rebecca Robbins, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

PhD

Locations

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Chidera Ejikeme

Role: CONTACT

cejikeme@bwh.harvard.edu

2039792338

Rebecca Robbins, PhD

Role: CONTACT

rrobbins4@bwh.harvard.edu

2039792338

Facility Contacts

Rebecca Robbins, PhD

Role: primary

rrobbins4@bwh.harvard.edu

2039792338

Other Identifiers

R34AG089176

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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BrighamHopsital

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id