Mini-treatment Experiments to Clarify How to Assist People to Habit Formation
Sleep Disorder, Circadian Dysregulation, Habit, Good Sleep
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Sleep Disorder
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Over 18 years of age
- Live in the United States
- Have a 95% acceptance rate on MTurk
- Have completed at least 1000 tasks on MTurk
- Consent to participate in the research
Screened participants will complete a demographic form to enable us to compare the demographics of those included with those who are excluded.
We will ask questions to pre-select MT workers who:
- Get less than 7 hours of sleep per night in the past week and
- Have irregular wake-up times of 60 minutes or more across the week and
- "snooze" in bed for more than 30 minutes on a typical morning in the past week
- Report some distress or impairment related to sleep
- Report motivation to improve their sleep or dismantle sleep-related habits
The items listed above will be ascertained with the Sleep Composite Timing Questions as well as the item assessing distress or impairment related to sleep from the Insomnia Severity Index and a rating of motivation (from the 'Interference and Motivation items'). On the latter two items, a score of 3 or 4 is needed to be accepted into the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not 18 years of age
- Does not live in the United States
Sites / Locations
- University of California at Berkeley
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Brief education
Treatment condition
Participants will be randomly allocated to the Brief Education condition or one of the five treatment conditions (see below). In this condition, participants only receive the learning module. This condition is included as a "minimal intervention" comparison condition that controls for the passage of time.
All participants will receive the Brief Education intervention described above. Then, participants will be randomly allocated to one of the following conditions for habit formation.