Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Jan 15, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 15, 2023 - Mar 12, 2023
Date Accepted: Apr 12, 2023
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Assessing the design of a sleep intervention chatbot with automatic Sleep Interviewing chatbot for sleep disorders: Protocol for an Observational Feasibility Study
ABSTRACT
Background:
Sleep disorders are commonly observed among the ageing population and people with neurodegenerative diseases. Sleep disorders have a strong bidirectional relationship with neurodegenerative diseases, where they accelerate and worsen one another. Although face-to-face cognitive behavioural interventions have shown promise for significant improvements in sleep efficiency among adults, many may experience difficulties accessing face-to-face interventions with psychiatrists or psychologists. Delivering intervention methods through an automated chatbot platform may be an effective strategy to increase the accessibility and reach of sleep disorder intervention among the ageing population and people with neurodegenerative diseases.
Objective:
This paper aims to: 1) Determine the feasibility and usability of an automated chatbot (named MotivSleep) that conducts sleep interviews through an automated chatbot to encourage the ageing population to report their sleep habits, followed by providing sleep hygiene tips for sleep disturbance based on participants’ self-reported behaviours; 2) Assess the self-reported sleep quality changes before, during, and after using our automated sleep disturbance intervention chatbot; 3) Assess the changes in sleep quality recorded by wearable sleep quality tracking device before, during, and after using the automated chatbot MotivSleep.
Methods:
For this pilot study, we will recruit 30 adult participants from west London to participate.
Results:
Recruitment will begin in March 2023 through UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI) Care Research and Technology Centre (CRT) organised community outreach. Data collection will start from March 2023 until August 2023.
Conclusions:
The MotivSleep automated chatbot has the potential to provide additional care to older adults who wish to improve their sleep quality in more accessible and less costly ways than conventional face-to-face therapy. Clinical Trial: N/A
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