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Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia - R33 Phase

Enhancing Sleep Quality for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: Pragmatic Trial of an Evidence-Based Frontline Huddling Program

Who can join

Ages 50 and older · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* Nursing home residents aged \>=50 years with an Alzheimer disease or related dementia (ADRD) diagnosis, identified by nursing home staff participating in frontline LOCK sleep huddles as having sleep problems

Exclusion Criteria:

* Residents with a high risk of OSA who are not being treated for OSA because actigraph measurements are inaccurate in that population.
* Residents who have a persistent bilateral resting tremor or paralysis in both arms (a subset of persons with Parkinson's disease and related significant tremor-causing diagnoses), due to actigraph measurement inaccuracies

About the study

This study seeks to improve clinical outcomes for an important, growing, and vulnerable population-nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias-by testing an evidence-based intervention to improve these residents' sleep. It will also examine the implementation and sustainment of this intervention.

What is being tested

• LOCK Sleep Program (behavioral)
• No intervention (control period/baseline data collection) (other)

Sponsor: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa · Participants: 456 · Started: Sep 7, 2023

Contact the study team

• Lynn Snow, PhD · Phone: 205-201-0312
• Brian Cox, MS · Phone: 205-348-7518

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05820919

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Dementia
• Sleep Disorders
• Parasomnias

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 29, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.