Advancing adolescent bedtime by using motivational interviewing and text reminders
Chronic sleep deprivation among adolescents is a prevalent health problem across the world and is associated with a series of short and long term consequences. However, effective interventions targeting on this vulnerable adolescent population is very limited. Majority of the previous sleep education programme are conducted in a school context which personal factors and individualized problems were not addressed. In addition, failure to address “knowledge-action gap” may also explain why individual fail to enact health behaviors even holding positive motivation.
In regard to this, we proposed an active and person-oriented protocol with the aid of advanced technology in order to improve adolescent sleep health. This study will conduct a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of group-based sleep intervention using motivational interviewing plus text reminders in changing adolescent sleep deprivation problem with both subjective and objective measurements. The intervention will consists of 4 weekly group therapy targeting on adolescent with school day sleep duration less than 7 hours.
Adolescents who have weekday sleep ≤ 7 hours, and possess mobile phone.
Adolescents who enroll in the study will be required to join 4 weekly group-based therapy and participate in the following tasks before and after the intervention:
