Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act

N/ACompletedNCT02025959

University of Chicago300 enrolled

Overview

Getting better sleep in the hospital is especially important due to a variety of adverse health effects that can potentially worsen patient recovery. To address these concerns and improve sleep in US hospitals, we aim to develop the SIESTA (Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act) program as an educational intervention designed to prepare hospital staff to assist patients in obtaining better sleep in hospitals and recognize the importance of screening for sleep disorders. The major educational goals of this proposal is to develop and pilot test an online educational program (SIESTA) which aims to train and motivate medical professionals to provide better sleep for hospitalized patients. We will utilize data from an ongoing sleep study, performed by the research team at the University of Chicago that looks at how adult patients are able to sleep while they are in the hospital, as a means of education for the participating medical staff.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Sleep Disorders Sleep

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * To be eligible to participate in this study, the subjects must be University of Chicago hospital employees over the age of 18 years old. Exclusion Criteria: * We will exclude any hospital staff under the age of 18 years old from this study as well as hospital patients and non-hospital staff.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Impact of Educational program

We will assess if the SIESTA program translates into behavior change based on staff satisfaction, knowledge, behavior and qualitative analysis.

Time frame: Four years

Secondary Outcomes

Patient Outcomes

We will asses affect of Intervention on hospitalized patient outcomes.

Time frame: Four Years