Sleep Promotion and Pediatric Hypertension
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Conditions studied: Insufficient Sleep, Hypertension
In brief
Determine the effectiveness and feasibility of a mobile health sleep extension approach in the pediatric nephrology setting, to increase sleep duration and reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06642246
- Run by
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- People needed
- 10
- Starts
- 2026-02-16
- Expected to finish
- 2026-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-07-07
Who can join
Age: 13 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Speak, read and write in English.
- Parental/guardian permission (informed consent) and child assent.
- Have a computer or a tablet computer with access to the Internet or own a smartphone with a data and text plan.
- Parent reported sleep duration on school nights less than or equal to 7.5 hours.
- Recently diagnosed with essential hypertension by Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM).
- If taking over the counter sleep aides, willing to stop them over the course of the study.
You may not qualify if…
- Any clinically diagnosed sleep disorder (e.g. sleep apnea) in the electronic health record and or regular use of prescribed sleep aide.
- Underlying chronic medical conditions, defined as a medical condition with a duration or expected duration longer than 3 months that involved taking regular medication, taking medications that could affect blood pressure (e.g., anti-hypertensive medications, glucocorticoids, or stimulants), and patients with underlying diagnoses known to be associated with elevated blood pressure (e.g., cardiac disease, kidney disease or diabetes).
- Inclusion Criteria for Parents/Legal Guardians:
- Be the parent/guardian of an eligible child enrolled in the main study.
- Speak, read, and write in English.
- Exclusion Criteria for Parents/Legal Guardians:
- Limited English proficiency
Where it is running
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
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