Sleep in Hospitalized Children at MSKCC

A Pilot Study: Sleep in Hospitalized Children With Cancer and Related Diseases

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02836041

Enrollment

Registered

2016-07-18

Start date

2016-07-07

Completion date

2021-05-26

Last updated

2021-05-28

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Conditions

Pediatric Cancer Patients

Keywords

assess sleep, Sleep Deprivation, 16-866

Brief summary

The investigators want to better understand how children sleep at night at MSKCC, so that the investigators can learn how to improve the sleeping environment.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALquestionnaires

Pre-hospital sleep questionnaire completed (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ)7 in children 0-3 years old; Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)8 in children 4 years and older). Subsequent Day(s): In-hospital sleep questionnaire completed between one and three times per subject (Sleep at MSK questionnaire (SAM), adapted from Sleep in a Children's Hospital (SinCH)9 by Dr. Lisa Meltzer). (Patients will be observed for up to 3 consecutive nights in total).

DEVICEactigraph

This device reliably measures sleep by monitoring the child's motion.

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

0 Months to 18 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Parent/Patient must provide written consent * Patient must be between the ages of: Newborn - ≤ 18 years of age * Patient is expected to be admitted to the Pediatric floor at MSK for at least 2 nights (patients/parents will not be approached for consent on day of admission or day of discharge) * Patient/parent must be English speaking

Exclusion criteria

* Expected length of stay of fewer than 2 nights (for example.: if admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday, patient/parent will not be eligible). * Patient /Parent unable to complete questionnaire due to education or language barriers. * Patients admitted to the PICU. (Only children on M9 will be included. It is known that sleep in the PICU is highly disordered; as such, we will be excluding PICU patients from this study).

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
quality of sleep	3 nights	(using the Sleep at MSK questionnaire)

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026