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The Pediatric Sleep Study

An interventional study of Olly melatonin-free supplement and Placebo Supplement in Sleep Quality and Sleep and Circadian Problems, sponsored by Olly, PBC. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 4 Years to 16 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-12.

Sponsored by Olly, PBC (part of Unilever) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

Updated Nov 12, 2026Newly registeredGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
4 Years to 16 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 903 studies in Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders with a site in United States — 146 open to participants now, 183 under way, 5 of them phase 3. Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders · United States.

Planned enrollment
142nd of 855
200 · median 60
Started
2026
with 59 others
No phase
577 of 903
107 open now
Primary completion
2027-06
later than 87 of 182 live
Registered
903rd of 903
by date

Among the 903 studies in Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders with a site in United States, this one is the 142nd largest by planned enrollment of the 855 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 60 that started in 2026, is one of 577 with no phase, reaches primary completion later than 87 of the 182 other live ones, and was the 903rd registered.

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

2,726 studies on the registry are indexed under Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; 728 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

146 of the 903 studies in Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 388 Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders studies recruiting now, 152 (39%) set no upper age limit and 206 (53%) stop at 75 or younger; 59 take children under 18; 108 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 4 Years to 16 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a melatonin-free sleep gummy (a chewable dietary supplement) improves sleep in children aged 4 to 16 whose parents report sleep concerns. It will also learn about the safety and tolerability of the gummy. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  1. Does the gummy improve the child's sleep disturbance, compared with a look-alike gummy?
  2. Does the gummy change daytime problems linked to poor sleep, sleep habits, and the parent's overall impression of the child's sleep?
  3. What medical problems do children have when taking the gummy?

Researchers will compare the sleep gummy to a placebo (a look-alike gummy that contains no active ingredient) to see if the sleep gummy improves sleep.

Participants will:

  1. Complete about 1 week of baseline questionnaires and diaries, then take 2 gummies once a day in the evening for 4 weeks, with a parent or guardian supervising
  2. Take part from home, with no clinic visits, using the Chloe study app
  3. Answer sleep questionnaires every week, a sleep habits questionnaire every 2 weeks, and a safety survey every week
  4. Have a parent or guardian keep a daily diary of sleep, naps, mood, activity, and the time the gummies were taken
  5. Some participants (an optional group of 60) will also wear a wrist device (a fitness tracker/smartwatch) at night to measure sleep
Read the detailed description

Each family takes part for up to about 11 weeks in total which includes a 1 week baseline period and a 4 week study product/placebo use period.

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Conditions studied

  • Sleep Quality
  • Sleep and Circadian Problems

Keywords

  • pediatric
  • sleep disturbance
  • sleep impairment
  • sleep habits
  • adolescents
  • dietary supplement
  • magnesium
  • theanine
  • lemon balm
  • chamomile
  • melatonin-free
  • decentralized clinical trial
  • children
  • supplement
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
4 Years to 16 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Child is aged 4 to 16 years, inclusive, at screening.
  • Parent or legal guardian reports current concerns about the child's sleep (for example, difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or keeping a consistent sleep routine) and confirms the child has no diagnosed sleep disorder.
  • Parent or legal guardian can read and understand English.
  • Parent or legal guardian can read, understand, and give on behalf of the child; the child gives age-appropriate assent where applicable.
  • Parent or legal guardian can use a personal smartphone and download Chloe by People Science.
  • Parent or legal guardian can receive shipment of the study product or placebo, and any wearable device, at an address within the United States.
  • Parent or legal guardian can support the child in completing study assessments for up to 11 weeks.
  • Child is willing and able to consume the gummy and can safely chew and swallow gummy products.
  • Parent or legal guardian agrees to keep the child's current lifestyle, diet, bedtime routine, and physical activity for the whole study.
  • Child has a regular sleep-wake cycle with a consistent bedtime and wake time (within about 1 hour on weekdays and weekends) for at least 3 weeks before baseline, and agrees to keep this schedule during the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • No personal smartphone, no internet access, or unwilling to download Chloe.
  • Child has a diagnosed sleep disorder needing medical management (for example, obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or restless leg syndrome).
  • Child snores loudly on most nights, has been seen to stop breathing, gasp, or choke during sleep, or has been referred for a sleep evaluation that is not yet complete.
  • Use of melatonin, prescription sleep medication, or other sleep aids (including over-the-counter antihistamines used for sleep and CBD or hemp products) within 28 days before screening, or expected use during the study.
  • Regular caffeine intake of more than 1 caffeinated beverage (over 110 mg) per day, or unwillingness to keep caffeine intake stable and avoid caffeine after mid-afternoon.
  • Use of a standalone magnesium supplement, or any dietary supplement marketed for sleep, stress, relaxation, mood, or focus, within 30 days before randomization or during the study. A stable-dose standard children's multivitamin is allowed.
  • Any therapy within 30 days before randomization.
  • Known allergy or to any study product or placebo ingredient, to Asteraceae (daisy family) plants, or to soy, egg, peanut, tree nuts, shellfish, milk, wheat, or sesame.
  • Any medical, neurodevelopmental, or psychiatric condition that, in the Principal Investigator's opinion, may confound sleep outcomes or affect participation.
  • Significant illness, disease, or condition that, in the Principal Investigator's opinion, may affect participation or outcomes.
  • Unlikely to be able to comply with the study, or considered unsuited by the Principal Investigator.
  • History or presence of a clinically diagnosed neurologic, cardiac, renal, hepatic, endocrine (including diabetes), pulmonary, biliary, or gastrointestinal condition. Well-controlled asthma managed with as-needed medication, seasonal allergies, and mild eczema are not exclusions.
  • at or above the 95th percentile for age and sex.
  • Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, other magnesium-retaining drugs, or potassium-sparing diuretics.
  • Other diseases or medications that might interfere with the study or put the participant's health at risk.
  • Immune insufficiency (such as selective IgA deficiency, common variable immunodeficiency, or X-linked agammaglobulinemia).
  • Taking any prescription medication or dietary supplement for anxiety, depression, mood, stress, focus, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
  • Known liver dysfunction.
  • Use of systemic or drugs.
  • History of cancer within the past 5 years.
  • Planned surgery or invasive medical procedures during the study.
  • Planned travel during baseline or the use period that involves a time zone change or 2 or more consecutive nights away from the usual sleep environment.
  • Parent or legal guardian cannot communicate with the study team or complete study procedures, or child has a condition that would prevent completing assent or assessments.
  • Child or household member of an employee of People Science or the Sponsor (Unilever/Olly).
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding (self-reported).
  • Another child in the same household is already enrolled.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(6)

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Investigational drug or device

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It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

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Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Active Product

    Under parent/guardian supervision, participant takes 2 gummies once per evening for 4 weeks.

    Dietary Supplement: Olly melatonin-free supplement

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Under parent/guardian supervision, participants 2 gummies oncer per evening for 4 weeks

    Dietary Supplement: Placebo Supplement

Interventions

  • Dietary supplementOlly melatonin-free supplement

    Melatonin-free supplement intended for children who experience mild-to-moderate sleep concerns. Contains magnesium, l-theanine, lemon balm extract, and chamomile.

  • Dietary supplementPlacebo Supplement

    The placebo gummy matches the study product in appearance, flavor, texture, and packaging and contains no active ingredients.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric Sleep Disturbance T-Score

    Age-appropriate PROMIS Pediatric Sleep Disturbance measure covering the past 7 days, reported as a T-score. Higher scores mean more sleep disturbance.

    Time frame: Baseline and weekly through Week 4 of the product or placebo use period

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in PROMIS Pediatric Sleep-Related Impairment T-Score

    Age-appropriate PROMIS measure of the daytime effects of poor sleep over the past 7 days, reported as a T-score. Higher scores mean more sleep-related impairment.

    Time frame: Baseline and weekly through Week 4 of the product or placebo use period

  2. Change from Baseline in Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) Total Score

    Parent-completed 33-item questionnaire of children's sleep behavior. Higher total scores mean more sleep problems.

    Time frame: Baseline and Weeks 2 and 4 of the product or placebo use period

  3. Parent/Guardian Global Impression of Change (PGIC-Proxy) Rating at Week 4

    Single parent- or guardian-rated item on a 7-point scale from 1 (very much improved) to 7 (very much worse), comparing the child's sleep with baseline.

    Time frame: Week 4 of the product or placebo use period

  4. Change from Baseline in Wearable-Derived Sleep Metrics in the Wearable Substudy

    Objective sleep metrics collected nightly by a wrist-worn consumer wearable device in a subset of participants.

    Time frame: Nightly during the baseline week and the 4-week product or placebo use period.

  5. Number of Participants with Adverse Events and Serious Adverse Events

    Adverse events and serious adverse events reported by parents or guardians and assessed by the investigator.

    Time frame: From the start to end of the study product/placebo use period through (Days 8-35)

Other outcomes

  1. Parent or Guardian Sleep Daily Diary Responses

    Daily diary completed by the parent or guardian covering the child's sleep, naps, mood, activity, medication changes, and time of product administration.

    Time frame: Daily from the baseline week through the end of the 4-week product or placebo use period.

  2. End-of-Study Experience Survey Responses

    Survey about the study design, product use, product experience, and use of the study app. Responses are used to identify improvements for future participant-centered study designs.

    Time frame: Once, after completion of the Week 4 assessment

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Publications

  • Institute of Medicine (US) Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1997. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK109825/ PubMed 23115811 ↗
  • Forrest CB, Meltzer LJ, Marcus CL, de la Motte A, Kratchman A, Buysse DJ, Pilkonis PA, Becker BD, Bevans KB. Development and validation of the PROMIS Pediatric Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairment item banks. Sleep. 2018 Jun 1;41(6). doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy054. PubMed 29546286 ↗
  • Carney CE, Buysse DJ, Ancoli-Israel S, Edinger JD, Krystal AD, Lichstein KL, Morin CM. The consensus sleep diary: standardizing prospective sleep self-monitoring. Sleep. 2012 Feb 1;35(2):287-302. doi: 10.5665/sleep.1642. PubMed 22294820 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Only coded, de-identified data are delivered to the sponsor. Identifiable data are not shared with the sponsor or any third party. Any release of study data to third parties requires written approval of the Principal Investigator.

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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Jun 2027, 7 months later.

Of 78 industry-sponsored interventional studies with no phase under Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, half reached primary completion within 6 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 3 and three quarters within 23. This study's planned 7 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 1,289 studies reached it within 15 months; a quarter within 6 and three quarters within 34.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 5, 2026
First posted
Nov 12, 2026
StartEst.
Nov 9, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jun 2027
CompletionEst.
Jul 2027
Last update
Nov 12, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Registered
First appeared on the registry. No changes since
Nov 12, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 12, 2026
    First appeared on the registry

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07932938
Lead sponsor
Olly, PBC
Collaborators
People Science, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 12, 2026
Start date
Nov 9, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 12, 2026

Study contacts

Clinical Research Study Team
Contact
ps60pediatricsleep@peoplescience.health
213-342-5681
Noah Craft, MD, PhD
principal investigator · People Science, Inc.

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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