Recruiting

Bedtime Stories

Sponsor:

Boston Children's Hospital

Code:

NCT06618040

Conditions

Sleep

Health-Related Behavior

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for Caregivers (BTS-C)

Study Details

Brief summary:

To date, there are very few established sleep health education models targeting caregivers of school-aged children from historically marginalized and/or low income communities. To address this significant gap, this project seeks to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program to improve sleep behavior. Bedtime Stories is a multi-stakeholder (health care providers, school-aged children, and caregivers of school-aged children) and a multi-component program. The caregiver component of the program utilizes mobile health technology with targeted and tailored sleep health messaging for caregivers of school-aged children. Addressing these aims will help to mitigate gaps in the delivery of health care services to caregivers and families in low income and historically marginalized communities, where services and interventions are scant.

Conditions

Sleep

Health-Related Behavior

Study ID

NCT06618040

Start date

Apr 1, 2025

Status verified date

Mar, 2026

Completion date

Apr 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years old or over
  • Caregivers of school-aged children (5-11 years of age) that receive care at participating community healthcare centers in the Boston area
  • English fluency

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Planning on moving within the next 3 months
  • Does not live in the home with the child

Study Design

Enrollment

75 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Sleep Health Education Program for Caregivers

The BTS-C is an online sleep health education program that is located on a mobile application. The BTS-C utilizes asynchronous avatar-based interactive learning and educational content and videos that are tailored to the caregivers' goals and expectations, paired with targeting messages for change surrounding principles of sleep health practices. The modules will be completed over the course of 6 weeks.

Interventions

Bedtime Stories Sleep Health Education Program for Caregivers (BTS-C)

The BTS-C includes 6 educational modules on different topics related to sleep health: principles of healthy sleep practices include sleep routines, the sleep environment, considerations for screen time, timing of sleep and activities surrounding sleep, expectations for healthy sleep and sleep duration. Caregivers will also receive a combination of tailored messages or prompts to explore progress, identify strategies for change, and goal setting.

Primary outcome measure

  • Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices [ Time Frame: Follow Up, after 8 weeks ]
  • Feasibility, acceptability, and usability [ Time Frame: Follow Up, after 8 weeks ]
  • Assessment of Child Sleep [ Time Frame: 1 week baseline, 1 week follow up, entire study ]
  • Child Sleep Health [ Time Frame: Baseline (at week 0), Follow Up (after 8 weeks) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Grace Y Wang, BS

617-919-6212grace.wang@childrens.harvard.edu

Judith Owens, MD

judith.owens@childrens.harvard.edu

Locations

Boston Children's Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

Contacts

Grace Y Wang

617-919-6212Grace.Wang@childrens.harvard.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Boston Children's Hospital

Last update posted

Mar 16, 2026

Last verified

Mar, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Boston Children's Hospital on 2026-03-16.