Status:
COMPLETED
Chronic Sleep Deprivation Among the Poor: A Lab-in-the-field Approach
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborating Sponsors:
Institute for Financial Management and Research
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Conditions:
Blood Pressure
Depression
Eligibility:
All Genders
25-55 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
A large body of medical research has shown that sleep deprivation adversely affects outcomes ranging from cognitive function to pain sensitivity and cardiovascular function. Much of this evidence come...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Unemployed and underemployed adult men and women of working age (see previous age limit) who have worked less than 5 days per week over the last month and earned less than Rs. 700 per day over that same period.
- Participants must live in Government board house or in a house with some kind of roof that protect the sleep aids from rain, such as a concrete or a metal or a Tarpaulin, ... roof.
- Have limited experience with typing, and limited knowledge of English.
- Participants need to speak Tamil, the local language, to be able to write numbers and to be able to commit easily to the office.
Exclusion
- Participants who cannot commit to come to the office for the duration of the whole study.
- Participants who own more than three of the sleep aids that we provide in our sleep kit.
- Participants who have previously participated in the sleep study.
- Participants who have children younger than three years old.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 23 2017
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 31 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
452 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03322358
Start Date
October 23 2017
End Date
December 31 2019
Last Update
September 21 2023
Active Locations (2)
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Institute for Financial Management and Research
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600006
2
J-PAL South Asia
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600006