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SleepSIESTANCT06942455

A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children

A study testing SIESTA in people with Sleep and Sleep Quality, run by Rhode Island Hospital at 2 sites in 2 countries.

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Trial summary

The main goal of this study is to evaluate the "SIESTA" intervention, a culturally and contextually tailored sleep hygiene intervention that has the potential to exert greater improvements in sleep hygiene and sleep outcomes for group that may be more vulnerable to poor sleep health. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 11 to 13 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Sleep, Sleep Quality, Intervention Study
What is being tested?
SIESTA
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
300 participants
Where
2 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
25 Jun 2025to 31 Mar 2029
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 11 to 13 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Child

Who may be able to join

  • children must be middle schoolers between 11-13 years old, live and go to school in one of the targeted school districts and sleep no more than 9 hours on an average night

Who cannot join

  • Children are not eligible to take part in the study if they have a medical, psychiatric, or developmental condition and/or are taking medicine for any condition that might affect their ability to and comfort with taking part in the study.

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 2 countries. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Sheryl J Kopel, MSc contact

+1-401-444-7217

Sheryl_Kopel@brown.edu

Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD contact

+1-401-793-8632

Daphne_Koinis-Mitchell@brown.edu

2 sites in 2 countries

United States1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Rhode Island Hospital

    Providence, Rhode Island, 02903

    Sheryl J Kopel, MSc, +1-401-444-7217, sjkopel@brownhealth.org

    Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD

    Recruiting

Other trials in United States

Puerto Rico1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Centro Medico

    San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Ligia Chavez, PhD, +1-787-758-2525 ext. 1941, ligia.chavez@upr.edu

    Not yet recruiting

Other trials in Puerto Rico

About this study

The main goal of this study is to evaluate the "SIESTA" intervention, a culturally and contextually tailored sleep hygiene intervention that has the potential to exert greater improvements in sleep hygiene and sleep outcomes for group that may be more vulnerable to poor sleep health.

The main question is: do SIESTA participants have improved sleep outcomes, sleep hygiene behaviors and less sleep-related impairment compared to Control Group participants?

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Participants randomized to the SIESTA intervention will:

  1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sleep hygiene education sessions
  2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
  3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
  4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

Participants randomized to the Child Health Control condition will:

  1. Attend 4 remotely administered group sessions covering general health topics
  2. Complete along with a parent/guardian, two individualized sessions administered by a SIESTA intervention facilitator
  3. Complete study survey at baseline, end of treatment, and at 4, 8 and 12 months post-intervention.
  4. Wear electronic sleep watches (actigraphy) throughout the protocol to objectively measure sleep duration and quality.

A secondary goal of the study is to conduct a process evaluation to prepare for future larger scale use of the intervention in other urban school settings. This will entail assessing Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) of the program through several methods, such as by conducting in-depth interviews with research participants and their parents/guardians, as well as school staff and by looking at rates of participation in the program.

Read the detailed description

Sleep is essential for optimal health and development. Poor sleep is associated with impaired functioning and academic performance, and worse health outcomes in children. Latino children are disproportionately present in urban settings, and due to their exposure to higher levels of urban and cultural stressors, are at greater risk for poor sleep hygiene and quality.

SIESTA (School Intervention to Enhance Latino Students' Time Asleep) is a novel sleep hygiene intervention for improving sleep hygiene and sleep duration in urban Latino middle schoolers in two geographic areas with a high proportion of urban Latino children at increased risk for poor sleep health: Providence, Rhode Island, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

SIESTA involves 4 group sessions administered in school to Latino middle schoolers (6th-8th grade) and two child-caregiver sessions administered remotely by a bilingual (English/Spanish) trained facilitator from the community.

The goal of this project is to administer a two-site hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design to evaluate SIESTA's effects on a larger-scale- for addressing Latino middle schooler's sleep health, while also assessing implementation determinants.

The first aim of the study is to evaluate SIESTA through a large-scale RCT with urban middle school students in Providence, RI and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The researchers will enroll 150 Latino children per site (N=300), and randomly assign them either to the SIESTA intervention, or to the Sleep Education plus Child Health attention-control condition (9 groups of each of the two conditions, per site; 8-9 students per group). Treatment effects on primary sleep outcomes will be evaluated, including sleep duration, efficiency and sleep onset latency. Secondary sleep outcomes will include sleep hygiene behaviors, the sleep environment, and sleep-related disturbances and impairment. Assessments will occur prior to, immediately following, and at 4, 8, and 12 months after the intervention.

Each participant will be active in the protocol over approximately 14 months, during which it is hypothesized that SIESTA participants will have improved sleep outcomes, sleep hygiene behaviors and less sleep-related impairment relative to Controls.

The second study aim is to identify implementation determinants and preliminary implementation outcomes of SIESTA to prepare for future large-scale implementation in other urban school settings. A mixed methods process evaluation will be implemented, with input from community partners using the RE-AIM framework throughout and following administration of the RCT.

SIESTA has the potential to improve sleep outcomes in urban Latino children and their daytime functioning, and to address a critical gap of the need for tailored and effective sleep hygiene interventions for children at greater risk for poor sleep health.

Being tested
SIESTA, Sleep education and health education control
Keywords
pediatric sleep intervention, sleep hygiene intervention, intervention determinants, sleep outcomes
Medical subject headings
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • SIESTABehavioural

    Active condition

  • Sleep education and health education controlBehavioural

    Attention Control

Study groups in NCT06942455
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
SIESTAExperimentalThe SIESTA Intervention includes 4, 60-minute group remote sessions by a trained facilitator, and 2, 90-minute family sessions in their home 1 week after group Sessions 1 and 4. SIESTA incorporates key sleep hygiene principles and strategies critical to optimal sleep health in middle schoolers and tailored to urban Latino children's cultural background and urban setting. Areas of focus include the importance of adequate sleep duration, principles and strategies to enhance sleep hygiene, and characteristics of healthy sleep environments, and were developed with targeted goals. After intervention group Session 1, daily sleep questions about the child participant are completed, including key sleep parameters (bedtime, rise time, night awakenings) and sleep hygiene behaviors (daytime naps, electronics, caffeine use) via Qualtrics. Responses are summarized and presented pictorially in caregiver-child sessions to facilitate developing sleep goals for the youth and assess their progress.
Receives: Behavioral: SIESTA
Sleep Education plus Child Health attention controlOtherA facilitator from the community will deliver this attention control condition, which consists of the same number of sessions as SIESTA but will focus only on basic sleep hygiene education plus general child health topics (e.g., nutrition, physical activity, safety). It is expected that this will exert limited treatment effects on sleep hygiene, because it does not 1) involve effective behavioral approaches for this age group, or 2) include content tailored for urban Latinos.
Receives: Behavioral: Sleep education and health education control

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Sleep Duration

    Sleep Duration through actigraphy will be calculated through Time in Bed (TIB) scores. A daily diary will document sleep events (e.g., bedtime) to score actigraphic data . Children will wear the actigraph Motion Logger device for 1-2 weeks at each time point. Data will be compared to data in a family-report daily diary using standard procedures.

    Measured: Sleep duration will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at baseline, immediately after the intervention ("end of treatment") and at follow ups at 4, 8, and 12 months post intervention/control.

  2. Sleep Efficiency/Quality

    Sleep efficiency will be estimated via actigraphy and will be calculated through % epochs of sleep between sleep start and sleep end.

    Measured: Sleep efficiency will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at baseline, end of treatment and at each 4, 8, and 12 months post intervention/control.

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-related Impairment

    Sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairment will be assessed by caregiver and child report by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS™) measures (Yu et al., 2011). Participants will be asked to report on the previous week. Raw scores are converted to T-scores (Mean=50, SD=10). Higher scores indicate more of the concept being measured, hence higher scores on Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Impairment indicate less optimal status on these domains, while scores lower than T=50 indicate better functioning (less sleep disturbance and sleep impairment).

    Measured: Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-related Impairment measures will be collected on each child at each of the of the 5 research assessment time points: enrollment/baseline, immediately after the intervention, and at the 4, 8 and 12 month follow up visits.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted24 Apr 2025
  2. Study start25 Jun 2025
  3. Primary completion31 Mar 2029 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Mar 2029 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The primary aim of this study is to test the SIESTA intervention through a large-scale Randomized Control Trial. 300 Latino middle school aged youth (11-13 years old, grades 6-8) will be randomly assigned either to the SIESTA intervention, or to the Sleep Education plus Child Health attention-control condition. Treatment effects on primary (e.g., sleep duration, sleep efficiency) and secondary (e.g., sleep hygiene) outcomes will be evaluated. Assessments will occur at a baseline visit and immediately following the conclusion of the intervention, and at 4, 8, and 12 months after the intervention.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
300 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06942455
Sponsor's protocol ID
R01MD019452
Other IDs
R01MD019452
Acronym
SIESTA
Status last verified
Sep 2026
First submitted
11 Apr 2025
Last updated
4 Sep 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: The final datasets will include individual participant survey data, diary data, and aggregated daily-level actigraphy data. We will share cleaned and de-identified individual-participant level data where all HIPAA identifiers have been removed. The rationale for sharing only cleaned data is to facilitate data reuse. All data will be made available through a user agreement. A README file and data dictionary will be generated and deposited into a repository along with all shared datasets. Documentation will include a description of the study design and methods, survey measures, data acquisition devices (actigraphy), and any other tools (e.g., software, databases, services) used in the study or in processing the data. The data dictionary will describe all variables in the dataset. The finalized SIESTA and Control Group Training manuals for group facilitators, and the SIESTA and Control Group Intervention manuals will be available in English and Spanish.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing SIESTA in people with Sleep and Sleep Quality, run by Rhode Island Hospital at 2 sites in 2 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in United States, Puerto Rico. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Sheryl J Kopel, MSc (+1-401-444-7217, Sheryl_Kopel@brown.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Sleep Duration (time frame: Sleep duration will be assessed for 1-2 weeks at baseline, immediately after the intervention ("end of treatment") and at follow ups at 4, 8, and 12 months post intervention/control.). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 Sep 2026; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 8 Nov 2026.

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