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    Design and Implementation of a Pilot Collegiate Sleep Health Incentive Program
    Anderson, Abigail (Virginia Tech, 2024-08-06)
    This study examined collegiate sleep health habits and aimed to design a sleep health promotion program to support better quality sleep for college students. A variety of factors affect college students’ sleep health and affect the current state of campus wellness programming. Although various studies have examined sleep education incentive programs among college students, few utilized the Self-Determination theoretical framework to focus on students' psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This current study focused on delivering sleep education activities to college students to foster long-lasting behavior change for sleep health rooted in Self-Determination Theory. A total of eight Virginia Tech Summer 1, online students completed the 5-week sleep intervention which delivered a module based asynchronous sleep education course through the CANVAS learning platform. As an incentive to participate in the program, they were offered extra credit points to be added to their final course grade. Participants engaged in a pre-program sleep hygiene index assessment to assess current sleep habits, then they engaged in several weeks of educational, social, and physical activities designed to help promote healthy sleep habits. After the program, participants filled out an additional sleep hygiene index survey to compare results as well as a post-program survey which assessed the success rate of the program. Post-program results showed a significant improvement in sleep hygiene (p < 0.001) with 87.5% of participants made positive habit changes to their sleep and 100% of participants would recommend the Goodnight Hokies sleep education program to other students. In addition, several of the weekly activities received a 50% positive relation to SDT. Even though 100% of participants would recommend this program to other students the study still had an overall attrition rate of 52.5% with only eight students completing the entire program.