The Impact of an Online Sleep Health Education Intervention on Sleep and Mental Health of Young Adults

Participants will access the intervention through the online survey platform (likely Qualtrics). The video will become accessible to intervention group participants immediately following completion of the baseline data collection (survey). The intervention video will be embedded into the platform. Participants will be randomly allocated to the intervention or control group using the platforms random allocation function. The intervention will include an engaging multi-media explainer video designed for young adults. It will use a narrative approach, featuring a main character who represents our target population. Guided by a narrator (spoken by either one of the investigators or a computer-generated voiceover), the viewers are guided on an animated journey exploring some of the key dimensions of sleep health (e.g., regularity, alertness, timing, efficiency, duration), including norms and common challenges experiences by young adults. This content will be developed based on the National Sleep Foundations Sleep Duration and Quality Guidelines and recent relevant empirical research. There will also be information on basic sleep physiology. The intervention video will be approximately 10 minutes in duration. Adherence of the intervention will be monitored through analytics from the online survey platform that displays how long participants stayed on the intervention video/page.