Engineering a mobile platform to promote sleep in the pediatric primary care setting

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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults

Published on: January 26, 2019

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Jonathan A Mitchell1,2, Knashawn H Morales3, Ariel A Williamson1,4,5,6,7

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Sleep Advances : a Journal of the Sleep Research Society
|May 13, 2021
PubMed

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This study developed a mobile health platform to improve children's sleep. Initial results show potential for sleep promotion, with further investigation planned.

Area of Science:

  • Digital Health
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Pediatric Health

Background:

  • Pediatricians require better tools for home-based childhood sleep promotion.
  • The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework guides development of digital health interventions.
  • Mobile health platforms offer a scalable solution for sleep promotion in children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the feasibility of a mobile health platform for treating insufficient sleep in children.
  • To develop and deploy a technology-based intervention for childhood sleep promotion.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of different intervention components within a mobile health platform.

Main Methods:

  • Children aged 10-12 years participated in two studies (N=30, N=43).
  • A mobile health platform collected sleep data via wearable trackers.
  • Intervention arms included gain-framed, loss-framed incentives, and normative feedback.

Main Results:

  • Study 1 showed increased sleep duration with gain-framed (21 min) and loss-framed (34 min) incentives.
  • Study 2 captured 81% of sleep data, with no significant differences between control and intervention groups.
  • The platform successfully captured sleep data and enabled remote communication.

Conclusions:

  • A mobile health platform for childhood sleep promotion has been developed and deployed.
  • The platform demonstrates feasibility for capturing sleep data and remote family engagement.
  • Further research will optimize intervention components using the MOST framework.
Abstract

Keywords:
childreninterventionpediatricssleep

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