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Impact of Short and Mistimed Sleep on Adolescents With ADHD: The Adolescent Attention and Circadian Timing Study (AACT)

13 de agosto de 2026 atualizado por: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Impact of Circadian Misalignment for Adolescents With ADHD: Observational and Mechanistic Data

Many adolescents go to bed late and wake up early for school. Science is only beginning to understand how sleep schedules can affect them. The investigators are interested in whether changing adolescents' sleep patterns affects their functioning, attention, and how they feel. The investigators are especially interested in the effects of changing both how much sleep adolescents get and when that sleep happens.

This study focuses on healthy 13-17-year-olds with ADHD. This study asks adolescents to systematically change their sleeping habits across a 3 week span. The first week, they follow a sleep schedule that fits reasonably well with the schedule they keep when they do not have to wake up early for any specific obligation (e.g., for school). The second week, they spend several nights in a "short sleep" condition, during which they get 6.5 hours in bed per night. The final week, they enter a sleep condition that allows for healthy sleep duration, but with a timing that is randomly assigned to either fit well with their preferred schedule or fit poorly with that schedule. During each week, they and their parents complete measures of their attention and other factors. At the end of each week, they attend an evening session to measure their internal body clock ("circadian phase"), as well as measures of attention and other thinking skills. The goal is to understand whether the benefits of healthy sleep duration depend on the timing of when that sleep occurs.

Visão geral do estudo

Status

Recrutamento

Condições

Intervenção / Tratamento

Tipo de estudo

Intervencional

Inscrição (Estimado)

50

Estágio

  • Não aplicável

Contactos e Locais

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Contato de estudo

Estude backup de contato

  • Nome: Stephen Becker, Ph.D.

Locais de estudo

  • Estados Unidos
    • Ohio
      • Cincinnati, Ohio, Estados Unidos, 45229
        • Recrutamento
        • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
        • Contato:

Critérios de participação

Os pesquisadores procuram pessoas que se encaixem em uma determinada descrição, chamada de critérios de elegibilidade. Alguns exemplos desses critérios são a condição geral de saúde de uma pessoa ou tratamentos anteriores.

Critérios de elegibilidade

Idades elegíveis para estudo

  • Filho

Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis

Não

Descrição

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Ages 13-17 years at time of informed consent/assent
  • Based on semi-structured clinical interview, participants must meet full DSM-5 criteria for ADHD inattentive or ADHD combined presentation.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-traditional school setting (morning-afternoon Monday-Friday).
  • Exclusionary diagnoses. We will exclude adolescents with known intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, psychosis, bipolar disorder, or neurologic conditions (e.g., epilepsy), per caregiver-report.
  • Exclusionary sleep disorders. We will exclude adolescents with symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea or periodic limb movement disorder based on published cutoffs on a validated questionnaire.

  • High caffeine intake. To promote adherence to directives not to consume caffeine the day of office visits without withdrawal effects, adolescents with daily intake of >1 coffee or "energy drink" or >2 caffeinated sodas per day based on caregiver- and adolescent-report will be excluded.

    • Unwillingness or inability to take part in study procedures (e.g., visits, prescribed sleep conditions).
    • Medication use or unwillingness to discontinue melatonin and/or stimulant medications during the 3-week study protocol.
  • Refusal to refrain from automobile driving during the sleep restriction condition.
  • "Intermediate" Chronotypes (neither morning larks nor night owls) based on habitual sleep timing on nights when adolescent has no morning obligations such as school or work.

Plano de estudo

Esta seção fornece detalhes do plano de estudo, incluindo como o estudo é projetado e o que o estudo está medindo.

Como o estudo é projetado?

Detalhes do projeto

  • Finalidade Principal: Ciência básica
  • Alocação: Randomizado
  • Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição fatorial
  • Mascaramento: Nenhum (rótulo aberto)

Armas e Intervenções

Grupo de Participantes / Braço
Intervenção / Tratamento
Experimental: Aligned Sleep Extension
One of two variants on the timing of period of when there is an opportunity to get healthy/recommended sleep duration. Aligned sleep extension allows 9.5 hours/night in bed in a manner that broadly fits with an adolescent's chronotype (e.g., early-to-bed and early-to-rise schedule for a morning lark).
Comportamental: Aligned sleep extension
Timing of extended sleep condition is randomly assigned to fit with participant's chronotype
Experimental: Misaligned Sleep Extension
One of two variants on the timing of period of when there is an opportunity to get healthy/recommended sleep duration. Aligned sleep extension allows 9.5 hours/night in bed in a manner that is broadly a poor fit with an adolescent's chronotype (e.g., early-to-bed and early-to-rise schedule for a night owl).
Comportamental: Misaligned sleep extension
Timing of extended sleep condition is randomly assigned to fit poorly with participant's chronotype

O que o estudo está medindo?

Medidas de resultados primários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Caregiver- and Adolescent-Reported Symptoms of Inattention
Prazo: Daily throughout each participant's involvement in the study, up to 3 weeks
Daily diary listing symptoms of inattention adapted from the IOWA Conners Questionnaire. Adolescents will self-report their own symptoms for the previous day. Parents/caregivers will report on their observations of the adolescents' symptoms for the previous day. Higher scores indicate greater inattention.
Daily throughout each participant's involvement in the study, up to 3 weeks

Medidas de resultados secundários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Caregiver- and Adolescent-Reported Internalizing Symptoms (depression, anxiety)
Prazo: Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Retrospective report of internalizing symptoms based on the Vanderbilt questionnaire across 5 days the previous week. Adolescents will self-report their own symptoms. Parents/caregivers will report on their observations of the adolescents' symptoms. Higher scores indicate greater internalizing symptoms.
Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Caregiver- and Adolescent-Reported Emotional Dysregulation
Prazo: Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Retrospective report of symptoms of Emotion Dysregulation (e.g., emotional responses stronger than is called for by a situation) across 5 days the previous week. Previously validated by the investigators against established measures of long-term emotion regulation, this form focuses on a shorter (5-day) period. Adolescents will self-report their own symptoms. Parents/caregivers will report on their observations of the adolescents' symptoms. Higher scores indicate greater dysregulation.
Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Caregiver- and Adolescent-Reported Impulsivity
Prazo: Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Retrospective report of internalizing symptoms based on the Vanderbilt questionnaire across 5 days the previous week. Adolescents will self-report their own symptoms. Parents/caregivers will report on their observations of the adolescents' symptoms. Higher scores indicate greater internalizing symptoms.
Each office visit during the participant's involvement. Office visits are spaced 1 week apart, for up to three visits.
Sleep Period Duration
Prazo: Nightly throughout study participation (around 3 weeks)
Nightly sleep period, defined as the simple difference between sleep onset and offset, based on a wrist-mounted accelerometer (wristwatch).
Nightly throughout study participation (around 3 weeks)
Inattention
Prazo: Twice daily during weeks 2 and 3 of study participation.
Adolescent-reported attention will me assessed via Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
Twice daily during weeks 2 and 3 of study participation.
Inattention, as objectively measured via the NASA PVT+ application (aka Psychomotor Vigilance Test).
Prazo: Four remote administrations: (1) the morning of a predetermined date during Week 2 of study participation; (2) the afternoon of that same Week 2 date; (3) the morning of a predetermined date during Week 3; (4) the afternoon of that same Week 3 date.
Remote-proctored administration via the NASA PVT+, loaded onto an iPhone. This is a computerized measure of sustained attention. Participants must attend to infrequent stimuli on screen as quickly as possible. Higher scores indicate slower or missed responses, and therefore greater inattention.
Four remote administrations: (1) the morning of a predetermined date during Week 2 of study participation; (2) the afternoon of that same Week 2 date; (3) the morning of a predetermined date during Week 3; (4) the afternoon of that same Week 3 date.

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Patrocinador

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Colaboradores

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Dean Beebe, Ph.D., Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
  • Investigador principal: Stephen Becker, Ph.D., Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Datas de registro do estudo

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Datas Principais do Estudo

Início do estudo (Real)

10 de julho de 2026

Conclusão Primária (Estimado)

1 de agosto de 2030

Conclusão do estudo (Estimado)

1 de agosto de 2030

Datas de inscrição no estudo

Enviado pela primeira vez

10 de junho de 2026

Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ

29 de junho de 2026

Primeira postagem (Real)

6 de julho de 2026

Atualizações de registro de estudo

Última Atualização Postada (Real)

17 de agosto de 2026

Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade

13 de agosto de 2026

Última verificação

1 de junho de 2026

Mais Informações

Termos relacionados a este estudo

Termos MeSH relevantes adicionais

Outros números de identificação do estudo

  • R01MH139504 (Concessão/Contrato do NIH dos EUA)

Plano para dados de participantes individuais (IPD)

Planeja compartilhar dados de participantes individuais (IPD)?

SIM

Descrição do plano IPD

Per sponsor policy, primary outcome data will be shared with the NIMH Data Archive (NDA).

Prazo de Compartilhamento de IPD

Per NDA guidelines, data will be uploaded every 6 months throughout the study. Longevity of those data will be determined by the NIMH.

Critérios de acesso de compartilhamento IPD

To access study data within NDA, users must submit at Data Request Checklist to NDA, sign the NIMH NDA Data Use Agreement, and submit proof of IRB approval. The Data Request Checklist will specify that data must be used for research purposes only, data will not be shared or sold, attempts will not be made to identify individual participants, etc. The NDA Data Access Committee will decide which requests to grant based on the information submitted. If given access, data access will be granted for one year but this is renewable. Should individuals or organizations request the dataset directly from the investigators, those requests will be directed to the NDA to retrieve the data.

Informações sobre medicamentos e dispositivos, documentos de estudo

Estuda um medicamento regulamentado pela FDA dos EUA

Não

Estuda um produto de dispositivo regulamentado pela FDA dos EUA

Não

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