Tests a sleep program for teens with new high blood pressure
Tests a phone-based sleep plan in teens newly diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Sleep Promotion and Pediatric Hypertension
Key facts
- Where
- Philadelphia, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 13 and 18 years old?
Source: NCT06642246, who can take part
Where in United States
- Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, United StatesTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Trial code
- NCT06642246
- Record updated
- 28 August 2026
- Original description
Determine the effectiveness and feasibility of a mobile health sleep extension approach in the pediatric nephrology setting, to increase sleep duration and reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure.Read full original descriptionShow less
Sleep Promotion Among Children Newly Diagnosed With Essential Hypertension
Determine the effectiveness and feasibility of a mobile health sleep extension approach in the pediatric nephrology setting, to increase sleep duration and reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Inclusion: 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.
Exclusion: 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); Limited English proficiency.