Tailored approach to sleep health education (TASHE): study protocol for a web-based randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans (hereafter referred to as blacks). Moreover, blacks may underutilize sleep services including overnight polysomnography. Thus, OSA among blacks may go undiagnosed and untreated, which has significant health consequences, including hypertension, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and daytime sleepiness.

Design and methods

This two-arm randomized controlled trial will assign 200 participants to a culturally and linguistically tailored web-based sleep educational platform. The website will be developed to ensure that the content is user friendly and that it is readable and acceptable by the target community. Participants will receive login information to a password-protec

SUBMITTER: Williams NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146895 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature