Advancing Adolescent Bedtime by MI and Text Reminders

Sleep Deprivation Clinical Trial

Official title: Advancing Adolescent Bedtime by Using Motivational Interviewing and Text Reminders - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Chronic sleep deprivation among adolescents is a prevalent health problem across the world and is associated with a series of short and long term consequences. However, effective interventions targeting on this vulnerable adolescent population is very limited. Majority of the previous sleep education programme are conducted in a school context which personal factors and individualized problems were not addressed. In addition, failure to address "knowledge-action gap" may also explain why individual fail to enact health behaviors even holding positive motivation. In regard to this, investigators proposed an active and person-oriented protocol with the aid of advanced technology in order to improve adolescent sleep health.

Clinical Trial Description

This study will conduct a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of group-based sleep intervention using motivational interviewing plus text reminders in changing adolescent sleep deprivation problem with both subjective and objective measurements. The intervention will consists of 4 weekly group therapy targeting on adolescent with school day sleep duration less than 7 hours. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sleep Deprivation

• NCT number: NCT03614572
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2018
• Completion date: October 31, 2021