Sleep Promotion and Pediatric Hypertension

Other illness

• 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).

Other

• \- Limited English proficiency

• 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.
• Be the parent/guardian of an eligible child enrolled in the main study.
• Speak, read, and write in English.