An interventional study of Yoga-based bedtime routine in Sleep, Inadequate and Sleep, sponsored by Emily Guseman. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-12.
Sponsored by Emily Guseman · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this intervention study is to learn if a yoga-based bedtime routine is feasible for families to follow and to learn if the routine is effective at improving preschooler sleep. The main question it aims to answer is:
Will families be able to follow the routine regularly during the study period? Will following the yoga routine improve household chaos and preschooler sleep? Researchers will compare the yoga group to a control group to see if implementing the yoga routine works better than simple advice to read a bedtime story.
Participants will be asked to visit the lab 4 times. At the first visit, we will measure body size of parents and children, ask parents to complete some surveys, and fit each of them with an activity monitor. One week later, they will return for the second visit. At this visit, we will collect the activity monitor and assign the participants to either the intervention (yoga) or control (bedtime story) group. Families in the intervention group will learn about the intervention and be asked to follow it for the next four weeks. Families in the control group will receive a book and advice about reading stories at bedtime. After four weeks, families will return to the lab for a third visit and we will repeat the measurements from visit 1. Then, families in the intervention group will be asked to follow the yoga routine as much as they would like to for the next 4 weeks. Families in the control group will \"cross over\" to the intervention group and will follow the yoga intervention for 4 weeks. Then, families will return to the lab for a 4th visit, where we will repeat all of the measures from the first visit and the study will be complete.
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Participants will be asked to follow a yoga-based bedtime routine for 4 weeks
Behavioral: Yoga-based bedtime routine
Waitlist control arm. Participants will complete a 4-week control period upon randomization. After this control period is completed, they will crossover into the intervention group and follow the same 4 week intervention as the yoga group.
Behavioral: Yoga-based bedtime routine
Dyads in the yoga intervention group receive a picture book outlining a bedtime-themed yoga routine and are instructed to incorporate it into their bedtime routine at least four nights per week for four weeks. The routine guides children through a sequence of yoga poses, starting with the mountain pose and ending in child's pose, designed to calm them as the story progresses. Parents are given a bedtime diary to record the date, whether the child completed the yoga routine each evening, and any comments about their experience with the book. At week 6, families return to the lab, complete anthropometric assessments and questionnaires, and are fitted with accelerometers to wear for the next week. The accelerometers are returned and data is downloaded a week later. Families are then encouraged to continue using the yoga routine as often as they wish for an additional four weeks, although the frequency of use is not tracked during this maintenance period.
Intervention adherence
Number of yoga sessions completed Percent of prescribed sessions completed
Time frame: 4 weeks
Household chaos
Measured using Chaos, Hubbub, and Order Scale (CHAOS) at enrollment, crossover point, and study completion. A lower CHAOS score post-intervention would indicate an improvement in household chaos.
Time frame: at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Child sleep duration
nightly sleep measured by waist-worn accelerometer at enrollment, crossover point, and study completion
Time frame: at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Parent sleep duration
nightly sleep measured by waist-worn accelerometer at enrollment, crossover point, and study completion
Time frame: 1 week at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Parent sleep quality
nightly sleep measured by waist-worn accelerometer at enrollment, crossover point, and study completion
Time frame: 1 week at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Child sleep quality
nightly sleep measured by waist-worn accelerometer
Time frame: 1 week at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Child sleep quality
measured by Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ; scored using mean and standard deviation of survey items. A higher CSHQ mean score indicates worse sleep quality)
Time frame: 1 week at week 1, week 5, and week 10
Plan to share: Undecided — This is a pilot study for a planned full-scale intervention
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