Promoting a healthy sleep is a big challenge and becomes a strategic priority in public health, due to the severe consequences on children's development and risk to psychiatric diseases. Interventions that promote healthy sleep, such as those that focus on the dissemination of behavioral and environmental recommendations of sleep hygiene with children, are presented as an alternative. Serious game design offers wide-reaching domains in health applications and is increasing in popularity, particularly with children and teens because of it's potential to engage and motivate players differently from other interventions. This study aims to evaluate effects of serious game on sleep hygiene recommendations "Perfect Bedroom: learn to sleep well," on sleep habits and sleep parameters of healthy children. This is an experimental, prospective and quantitative study. We will randomize children in experimental (n = 88) and no intervention groups (n = 88). The experiment has four stages (pre-intervention, intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up), which will count with participation of children and their parents/guardians. In the evaluation stages, the guardians will answer questionnaires and scales to assess sociodemographic and health data, sleep habits and sleep pattern of their child. The children themselves will answer the following: a scale to assess sleepiness levels, a questionnaire to evaluate the serious game and the game itself, will characterize their bedroom and the activities they perform before sleep, with strategies developed by researches. Intervention with experimental group conducted with the serious game "Perfect Bedroom" will happen twice a week, for 3 weeks in a row, resulting in six sessions of 50 min each. Inferential analysis will be conducted for comparisons between groups and intragroups to measure effect of intervention in primary outcomes (sleep habits) and secondary outcomes (sleep parameters). We expect that the intervention with this game can provide valuable evidence to a new approach in promoting healthy sleep habits, with applications in clinical, educational, and familiar settings, which could diminish future health issues and risk at psychiatric diseases, decreasing the social burden of treatments for these conditions in children.

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儿童睡眠教育工具的研究协议：严肃的游戏“完美的卧室：学会睡个好觉”。

促进健康的睡眠是一项艰巨的挑战，由于对儿童发育的严重影响和患精神病的风险，它已成为公共卫生的战略重点。作为替代方案，提出了促进健康睡眠的干预措施，例如侧重于向儿童传播睡眠卫生的行为和环境建议的干预措施。认真的游戏设计在健康应用中提供了广泛的领域，并且越来越受欢迎，尤其是在儿童和青少年中，因为它有可能与其他干预方式不同地吸引和激励玩家。本研究旨在评估严肃游戏对睡眠卫生建议“完美的卧室：学会良好睡眠”对健康儿童的睡眠习惯和睡眠参数的影响。这是实验性的 前瞻性和定量研究。我们将儿童随机分为实验组（n = 88）和无干预组（n = 88）。该实验分为四个阶段（干预前，干预，干预后和随访），这将在儿童及其父母/监护人的参与下进行。在评估阶段，监护人将回答问卷和量表，以评估其社会人口统计学和健康数据，孩子的睡眠习惯和睡眠方式。孩子们自己将回答以下问题：评估嗜睡程度的量表，评估严肃游戏和游戏本身的问卷，通过研究制定的策略来表征他们的卧室以及他们入睡前进行的活动。在严肃的游戏“ Perfect Bedroom”中对实验小组进行干预 每周两次，连续3周，每次六次，每次50分钟。将进行推论分析以比较各组和各组之间的差异，以测量干预对主要结局（睡眠习惯）和次要结局（睡眠参数）的影响。我们希望通过这款游戏进行干预，可以为在临床，教育和熟悉的环境中推广健康睡眠习惯的新方法提供有价值的证据，这可以减少将来的健康问题和精神疾病的风险，从而减轻精神疾病的社会负担。儿童的这些疾病的治疗方法。将进行推论分析以比较各组和各组之间的差异，以测量干预对主要结局（睡眠习惯）和次要结局（睡眠参数）的影响。我们希望通过这款游戏进行干预，可以为在临床，教育和熟悉的环境中推广健康睡眠习惯的新方法提供有价值的证据，这可以减少将来的健康问题和精神疾病的风险，从而减轻精神疾病的社会负担。儿童的这些疾病的治疗方法。将进行推论分析以比较各组和各组之间的差异，以测量干预对主要结局（睡眠习惯）和次要结局（睡眠参数）的影响。我们希望通过这款游戏进行干预，可以为在临床，教育和熟悉的环境中推广健康睡眠习惯的新方法提供有价值的证据，这可以减少将来的健康问题和精神疾病的风险，从而减轻精神疾病的社会负担。儿童的这些疾病的治疗方法。