Natasha Williams|Rebecca Robbins|David M. Rapoport|John P. Allegrante|Alwyn Cohall|Gbenga Ogedgebe|Girardin Jean-Louis
Tailored approach to sleep health education (TASHE): study protocol for a web-based randomized controlled trial
NYU Langone Health|NYU Langone Health|Columbia University|Harlem United|Columbia University|NYU Langone Health|NYU Langone Health
obstructive sleep apnea osa sleep disorder disproportionately affects african americans hereafter referred blacks moreover blacks may underutilize sleep services including overnight polysomnography thus osa among blacks may go undiagnosed untreated significant health consequences including hypertension diabetes cognitive impairment daytime sleepiness twoarm randomized controlled trial assign 200 participants culturally linguistically tailored webbased sleep educational platform website developed ensure content user friendly readable acceptable target community participants receive login information passwordprotected website access website 2 months study assessments collected baseline 2 months postenrollment 6 months followup use qualitative quantitative methods develop tailored materials ascertain whether tailored materials increase osa knowledge osa health literacy comparing blacks exposed tailored materials versus exposed standard sleep health literature hypothesize exposure tailored osa information improve osa health literacy studies investigated racialethnic disparities relation osa screening treatment comparing blacks whites moreover know interventions designed increase osa knowledge health literacy among blacks use internet disseminate health information growing population thus internet may effective means increase osa health literacy thereby potentially increasing utilization sleeprelated services population study registered clinicaltrialsgov reference number nct02507089 registered 21 july 2015