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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sleep; Health-Related Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for community healthcare providers (BTS-HP)

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 25
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Boston Children's Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

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)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers; 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.

Behavioral: Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for community healthcare providers (BTS-HP); 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Provider knowledge, perceptions, and practices of sleep health	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).	1-14 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Provider Acceptability	Sample questions BTS-HP experience survey (e.g. questions: How was easy the training to use? How was this training in anticipatory guidance?	1-14 days
Provider Feasibility (number of modules)	Monitor access and completion of modules by counting the number of modules accessed and/or completed for each provider through the online portal.	1-14 days
Provider Feasibility (time spent)	Monitor access and completion of modules by measuring the time spent on each module for each provider through the online portal.	1-14 days
Provider Feedback on Drafted Content	Feedback on their participation and their use of content, sleep health material.	1-14 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
• Collaborators: Allan & Gill Gray Foundation
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Judith Owens, MD, Boston Children's Hospital

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Owens JA, Jones C. Parental knowledge of healthy sleep in young children: results of a primary care clinic survey. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2011 Jul-Aug;32(6):447-53. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e31821bd20b.
• Owens JA. The practice of pediatric sleep medicine: results of a community survey. Pediatrics. 2001 Sep;108(3):E51. doi: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e51.
• Meltzer LJ, Mindell JA. Systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral interventions for pediatric insomnia. J Pediatr Psychol. 2014 Sep;39(8):932-48. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsu041. Epub 2014 Jun 19.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 9, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 22, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 7, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): June 12, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): August 28, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 22, 2025
• Last Verified: August 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavior; Health Behavior
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB-P00044533

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No