The People’s Trial results
We looked at each participant to see:
- how many improved
- had no change
- or had worse quality of sleep from the start to the finish of the trial.
Overall, we found that reading a book in bed before going to sleep improved sleep.
42% (156 people) in the reading a book in bed group felt their sleep improved
compared to
28% (112 people) in the not reading a book in bed group.
What people told us their sleep quality was at the end of the trial?
Although reading improved sleep quality overall, not everyone’s sleep improved. 10% of people (37 people) in the reading a book in bed group and 16% (64 people) and in the not reading a book in bed group, felt that their sleep got worse (This is not at all unusual in trials).
Scientific Publications from The Peoples’ Trial
Finucane E, O’Brien A, Treweek S, Newell J, Das K, Chapman S, Wicks P, Galvin S, Healy P, Biesty L, Gillies K, Noel-Storr A, Gardner H, O’Reilly MF, Devane D. The People’s Trial: supporting the public’s understanding of randomised trials. Trials. 2022 Mar 9;23(1):205. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05984-1. PMID: 35264220; PMCID: PMC8905031.
Finucane E, O’Brien A, Treweek S, Newell J, Das K, Chapman S, Wicks P, Galvin S, Healy P, Biesty L, Gillies K, Noel-Storr A, Gardner H, O’Reilly MF, Devane D. Does reading a book in bed make a difference to sleep in comparison to not reading a book in bed? The People’s Trial-an online, pragmatic, randomised trial. Trials. 2021 Dec 4;22(1):873. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05831-3. PMID: 34996514; PMCID: PMC8740874.
