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Protocol for a pilot hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation study to improve help-seeking for sleep disorders in the future healthcare workforce: The Sleep Check Before Shift Work trial
Sleep advances, Vol.6(2), zpaf020
2025
PMID: 40351549
Abstract
Sleep disorders are prevalent in shift workers but are commonly undiagnosed and unmanaged. This poses considerable safety, productivity, and health risks. There is limited education or early intervention to encourage awareness of, and treatment for, sleep disorders in young adults who will transition into careers requiring shift work. This study aims to investigate (a) the
of simulated shift work exposure and cognitive performance feedback for prompting help-seeking for sleep problems, and (b) the feasibility and acceptability of
this intervention for future healthcare workers. A hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation trial will be conducted from June 2024 to December 2025 with prospective healthcare workers currently enrolled in a medicine, paramedicine, or nursing degree. Ninety adults (18-39 years) who self-report sleep disturbances will be recruited and complete a combination of structured clinical interviews, screening questionnaires, remote monitoring technology, and overnight polysomnography (PSG). Participants will be randomized across three conditions, with varying exposure to a simulated transition to night shift without sleep, and cognitive performance feedback. All individuals will attend a diagnostic appointment with a sleep psychologist or sleep physician and discuss help-seeking pathways for their sleep. The primary outcomes will be help-seeking from a health professional for sleep (yes/no), time to help-seeking (days), and road safety-related events over 12 months. Process evaluation will explore the feasibility and acceptability of this approach from the participants' perspective.
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- Title
- Protocol for a pilot hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation study to improve help-seeking for sleep disorders in the future healthcare workforce: The Sleep Check Before Shift Work trial
- Authors/Creators
- Claire Dunbar - Flinders UniversityKelly Sansom - Murdoch University, Centre for Healthy AgeingNicole Lovato - Flinders UniversityAndrew Vakulin - Adelaide Institute for Sleep HealthKelly A Loffler - Flinders UniversityKatrina Nguyen - Adelaide Institute for Sleep HealthJosh Fitton - Adelaide Institute for Sleep HealthShantha M W Rajaratnam - Hologic (Germany)Tracey L Sletten - Hologic (Germany)Gorica Micic - Flinders UniversitySally A Ferguson - Central Queensland UniversitySian E Wanstall - Flinders UniversityBrandon W J Brown - Adelaide Institute for Sleep HealthGillian Harvey - Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaRobert Adams - Flinders UniversityAmy C Reynolds - Flinders University
- Publication Details
- Sleep advances, Vol.6(2), zpaf020
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on behalf of Sleep Research Society.
- Number of pages
- 11
- Identifiers
- 991005779526007891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2025.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Healthy Ageing
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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