Sleep in Hospitalized Children at MSKCC

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center66 enrolled

Overview

The investigators want to better understand how children sleep at night at MSKCC, so that the investigators can learn how to improve the sleeping environment.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Pediatric Cancer Patients

Interventions

questionnairesBEHAVIORAL

Pre-hospital sleep questionnaire completed (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ)7 in children 0-3 years old; Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)8 in children 4 years and older). Subsequent Day(s): In-hospital sleep questionnaire completed between one and three times per subject (Sleep at MSK questionnaire (SAM), adapted from Sleep in a Children's Hospital (SinCH)9 by Dr. Lisa Meltzer). (Patients will be observed for up to 3 consecutive nights in total).

actigraphDEVICE

This device reliably measures sleep by monitoring the child's motion.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 0 MonthsMax age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Parent/Patient must provide written consent * Patient must be between the ages of: Newborn - ≤ 18 years of age * Patient is expected to be admitted to the Pediatric floor at MSK for at least 2 nights (patients/parents will not be approached for consent on day of admission or day of discharge) * Patient/parent must be English speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Expected length of stay of fewer than 2 nights (for example.: if admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday, patient/parent will not be eligible). * Patient /Parent unable to complete questionnaire due to education or language barriers. * Patients admitted to the PICU. (Only children on M9 will be included. It is known that sleep in the PICU is highly disordered; as such, we will be excluding PICU patients from this study).

Locations (1)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

quality of sleep

(using the Sleep at MSK questionnaire)

Time frame: 3 nights

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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