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Overall Research Goals

  • To understand that sleep is a modifiable risk factor and could impact acute and long-term health and life outcomes
  • Understand the need for shared responsibility around sleep and sleep equity, including the role of policy, healthcare systems, environments, and society
  • Broaden the net on who sleep and media research includes, who is it for, and who it can help via methodological research, community engaged work, mentorship and leadership

Current Studies

  • GAMERS study (Gaming, the Media Environment, and Resilience of Sleep) — a longitudinal cohort study with nested mechanistic experimental trials, exploring within and between individual variability in resilience to the sleep effects of late night recreational media use in both neurotypical and neurodiverse young adults to better inform the development of harm reduction interventions.
  • BALANCE study (Bringing Accessible Leisure Activity Needed for Community Equity) — a mixed methods, multilevel project exploring the impact of ableism (at the societal, interpersonal, and internalized levels) on access to enjoyable and sustainable recreational physical activity among adults with mild to moderate mobility impairment, the subsequent impact on sleep, and the potential role of elective mobility aid use.
  • Secondary data analysis projects — teams within the Sleep Equity Lab are currently engaged in analysis projects using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the National College Health Assessment (NCHA).
  • Content analysis projects — past and current content analysis projects within the lab have engaged in structured content coding of video games, youtube videos, children’s picture books, and merchandising copy for sleep aids.
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis projects — past and current evidence synthesis projects have looked at methodological issues impacting the validity and generalizability of sleep research, modeling the long term impact of sleep problems in different risk populations, and different risk factors for sleep disparities.

Previous Studies

SHIP (Sleep Health in Preschoolers)

The SHIP study is a randomized controlled trial of an intervention for preschool children with sleep problems. We aim to give parents the knowledge, motivation, and skills necessary to set goals, problem-solve, and improve their child’s sleep.

Sleepazoid

Eliminating 100% of media use is not practical in today’s society, but harm-reduction interventions have the potential to reduce negative impacts on sleep. This study examines a mind-body approach in a randomized clinical trial of early adolescents with evening media use and sleep problems.