This is a pilot intervention of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for healthcare providers serving school aged children and their caregivers. The intervention uses a pre-post design across participants.
To date, there are no established sleep health education programs for healthcare providers. To address this gap, the investigators previously conducted semi-structured interviews with community-based healthcare providers to improve our knowledge and understanding of healthcare providers' attitudes and beliefs about sleep health, factors that may contribute to poor sleep health, and identify potential sleep health promotion strategies for low income, racial and ethnic minority children and their families. Data from those sessions helped to inform and refine content to develop a sleep health education program for community healthcare providers. The purpose of this protocol it assess the effectiveness of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program in Community Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP). Healthcare providers from participating community healthcare centers will be invited to participate. Once a healthcare provider expresses interest in participating, they will receive a REDCap link to provide their informed consent. The provider will then complete a short demographic questionnaire via REDCap. Once the healthcare provider consents and completes the short questionnaire, they will receive a secure link to the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for Healthcare Providers (BTS-HP). The BTS-HP is an online sleep health education program supported by the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Education (CE Courses - BCH Education (childrenshospital.org). The provider will also receive access to an educational webinar on Melatonin. The provider can participate all modules and the webinar in one sitting or overtime. Once the provider completes the online modules, they will immediately receive an email with a REDCap link to complete their post-participation questionnaire.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
25
The sleep health education program includes 6 educational modules on different topics related to sleep health: (1) Basics of Sleep, 2) Sleep and Development, 3) Sleep Health, 4) Consequences of Deficient Sleep, 5) Sleep Health Disparities, and 6) Sleep Screening and Evaluation.
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Provider knowledge, perceptions, and practices of sleep health
Changes in self-reported knowledge, attitudes, confidence, intent to change practice (questions included in the post participation questionnaire). Retrospective pre-post survey. The scale is named "Sleep Questions for Retrospective Pre-Post Survey". The minimum value is 10 and the maximum value is 55. A higher score indicates more confidence in sleep health knowledge (a better outcome).
Time frame: 1-14 days
Provider Acceptability
Sample questions BTS-HP experience survey (e.g. questions: How was easy the training to use? How was this training in anticipatory guidance?
Time frame: 1-14 days
Provider Feasibility (number of modules)
Monitor access and completion of modules by counting the number of modules accessed and/or completed for each provider through the online portal.
Time frame: 1-14 days
Provider Feasibility (time spent)
Monitor access and completion of modules by measuring the time spent on each module for each provider through the online portal.
Time frame: 1-14 days
Provider Feedback on Drafted Content
Feedback on their participation and their use of content, sleep health material.
Time frame: 1-14 days
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