Pediatric Sleep
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to conduct community-engaged research (CEnR) with families and pediatric providers caring for the children in those families to address the following specific aims: 1. Examine parents' knowledge and perceptions about their 6-36 month old children's sleep and objective characteristics of sleep, including (1a) self-reported and actigraph-recorded characteristics of sleep, sleep habits, and difficulty; (1b) the contributions of sleep habits and individual, family, community, cultural/social, and health-related factors to sleep characteristics and sleep difficulty; (1c) consequences of sleep difficulty; (1d) successful and unsuccessful strategies used to promote children's sleep and sleep habits; (1e) preferences regarding sleep promotion interventions for their children; and perceptions of the optimal timing to begin sleep promotion intervention 2. Examine pediatric primary care providers' perceptions about (2a) the importance of sleep and sleep habits for 6-36 month old children; (2b) factors that contribute to sleep habits and sleep difficulty; (2c) successful and unsuccessful approaches to promote healthy sleep habits, adequate duration and good quality sleep and assessment and management of sleep difficulty in young children within the context of their families; and (2c) barriers, facilitators, and preferences regarding sleep-promoting interventions for families with young children; 3. Collaborate with families and providers to use the information obtained in Aims 1 and 2 to develop and refine a feasible, relevant, and acceptable sleep promotion program, including procedures, protocols, patient materials, intervention fidelity plans, and delivery methods.
Detailed description
The investigators will conduct this study in 3 phases, employ Community Engaged Research (CEnR), and use guidelines for community participation developed through Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI/Yale's CTSA). The Social Ecological Model, depicting interactions among the environment, individual, family, community, and society as they influence health, will guide the study. The key informants and community and clinical stakeholders represent layers of the model49-51 acknowledging the critical intersection between the model components and health promotion behavior (i.e., healthy sleep habits). Community Engagement. The investigators will extend the CEnR process begun in our preliminary work to engage two groups of community stakeholders: parents of children between the ages of 6-36 months and pediatric primary care clinicians who provide health care to those children. The investigators will invite 8-10 volunteers (pediatricians, nurse practitioners, parents of 6-18 month old children, parents of 19-36 month olds) to join our team as members of a Community Advisory Committee that will meet quarterly throughout this project to assist with oversight and share decision-making about methods, interpretation of findings, and intervention development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. The investigators will meet at convenient times and locations and use conference calls if preferred. The investigators will compensate parents and providers for time spent in study activities and reimburse parents for taxi cab fare. The investigators will provide onsite childcare in a separate room from the interviews. The investigators will offer committee members co-authorship on reports and collaboration on disseminating information on sleep habits into the community. The investigators will also invite them to continue to guide future studies and intervention projects. Consistent with a CEnR approach, The investigators will include them as full partners in future collaborations as preferred. In Phase I/Aims 1 & 2 the investigators will employ a convergent mixed methods approach in which the investigators will collect quantitative (questionnaires) and qualitative interview data (semi-structured interview) about parents' perceptions of children's sleep, sleep habits, sleep difficulty, and sleep-promoting interventions (Aim 1). The investigators will also use semi-structured interviews to elicit perceptions about the importance of sleep, promotion of healthy sleep habits, sleep assessment, sleep difficulties, and barrier and facilitators to sleep promotion, assessment, and intervention from primary care clinicians (Aim 2). In Phase II/Aim 3 the investigators will collaborate with the Community Advisory Board to draft a sleep promotion program, based on phase I results and the literature. Deliverables will include objectives, content, procedures, protocols, patient materials, intervention fidelity procedures, and delivery methods, including a possible prototype of an mHealth approach. The investigators will use an iterative method, including focus groups with our two communities, for member checking and cognitive interviewing to assess feasibility, cultural relevance and acceptability of the intervention. Investigators will conduct feasibility testing of the sleep promotion intervention in one childcare center.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Yale University
Study design
Observational model
ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
for parents: * fluent in English * New Haven residents * obtain pediatric care in a New Haven community practice * parents of 6-18 month old children * parents of 19-36 month old children
Exclusion criteria
for parents: * severe mental illness * severe cognition impairment * substance-related symptoms requiring inpatient hospitalization or ambulatory detoxification * those whose children have a serious illness, significant developmental delays * parents with children in custody of the CT Department of Children and Family Services Inclusion Criteria for Pediatric primary care providers * experienced in the care of community children * provide care in the greater New Haven are * speak English
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| parent stress/distress via Parenting Stress Index (PSI)-Short Form | interview of approximately 60 minutes | The BSI is reliable and valid (GSI alpha = 0.90), requires a 6th grade reading level, and the investigators have used it in studies with adolescent and young parents.69 The 36 item PSI-short form, 83 a measure of the relative magnitude of stress in the parent-child system is rated on a 5 point scale and yields five subscale scores: Parent Distress, Parent-Child Difficulty, Difficult Child, Defensive Responding, and Total Stress. The PSI subscales have concurrent validity with the full-length PSI.84 Alpha coefficients ranged from.88-.95- across the five subscales in similar samples |
| parent knowledge about sleep | interview of approximately 60 minutes | A member of the research team experienced in qualitative interviewing will conduct the parent interviews in a private space at the PCC, Yale School of Nursing (YSN), or other convenient location at a time separate from a health care visit. Investigators will use a semi-structured guide organized by the constructs of interest (e.g. sleep characteristics, importance of sleep, sleep habits, contributing factors). Open-ended prompts will be used to explore ideas. Interview data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. Investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
| parent distress/stress via Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) | interview of approximately 60 minutes | The 18-item BSI includes a Global Severity Index (GSI: symptomatology across multiple domains during the preceding 2 week) and subscales (depression, somatization and anxiety symptoms). |
| actigraph sleep duration | 9 nights | Objective sleep characteristics will be measured with the Respironics Minimitter Actiwatch AW2. Reliability for actigraphy in 12-24 month old children ranges from .67-.85 (sleep duration) and .77-.89 (efficiency). As in earlier studies, the actigraph will be worn on the ankle. The parent will depress the event marker at lights out/bedtime, lights on, and naptime and record the times in the diary. A user-friendly guide will be used to explain this process to parents. The investigators will phone parents every two days to address questions and remind them to continue. The investigators will request 9 days and nights of data to obtain at least seven nights, a period that will enable us to determine daily variability. |
| actigraph sleep efficiency | 9 nights | Objective sleep characteristics will be measured with the Respironics Minimitter Actiwatch AW2. Reliability for actigraphy in 12-24 month old children ranges from .67-.85 (sleep duration) and .77-.89 (efficiency). As in earlier studies, the actigraph will be worn on the ankle. The parent will depress the event marker at lights out/bedtime, lights on, and naptime and record the times in the diary. A user-friendly guide will be used to explain this process to parents. The investigators will phone parents every two days to address questions and remind them to continue. The investigators will request 9 days and nights of data to obtain at least seven nights, a period that will enable us to determine daily variability. |
| actigraph nap duration | 9 days | Objective sleep characteristics will be measured with the Respironics Minimitter Actiwatch AW2. Reliability for actigraphy in 12-24 month old children ranges from .67-.85 (sleep duration) and .77-.89 (efficiency). As in earlier studies, the actigraph will be worn on the ankle. The parent will depress the event marker at lights out/bedtime, lights on, and naptime and record the times in the diary. A user-friendly guide will be used to explain this process to parents. The investigators will phone parents every two days to address questions and remind them to continue. The investigators will request 9 days and nights of data to obtain at least seven nights, a period that will enable us to determine daily variability. |
| parent-reported sleep patterns | interview of approximately 60 minutes | by diary and interview, Interview data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. Investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| successful and unsuccessful approaches to promoting healthy sleep habits from providers | interview of approximately 60 minutes | Interview and focus group data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. The investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
| assessing and managing sleep disorders from providers | interview of approximately 60 minutes | Interview and focus group data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. The investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
| resources needed to support assessment and management from providers | interview of approximately 60 minutes | Interview and focus group data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. The investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
| barriers, facilitators, and preferences for sleep-promoting interventions from providers | interview of approximately 60 minutes | Interview and focus group data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. The investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
| focus group to assess feasibility, cultural relevance and acceptability | 90 minutes | Investigators will hold separate focus groups for parents of the two age groups and clinicians. The investigators anticipate conducting approximately 6 focus groups with 8-10 participants in each to review and refine the sleep program. The investigators will use an iterative method, including focus groups with our two communities, for member checking and cognitive interviewing, to assess feasibility, cultural relevance and acceptability of the intervention. |
| perceptions of the importance of sleep from providers | interview of approximately 60 minutes | Interview and focus group data will be digitally transcribed and uploaded into Atlas.ti software. The investigators will use a qualitative descriptive approach and a constant comparative method in which data collection and analysis occur simultaneously to allow for a flexible and emergent design, with modification of the interview schedule and probes as new patterns or directions emerge from the data. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed