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FUSS explores how sleep patterns change and develop during and after the college transition. This study begins data collection during the first year of college to capture the development of sleep patterns throughout college. Teasing apart sociodemographic and environmental impacts of sleep behavior, this study explores systematic differences by ethnicity/race, age, gender, 1st-generation college students, SES, and commuters versus on-campus residents. FUSS is designed to investigate how sleep behaviors and patterns in college impact the downstream development of health disparities.
FUSS explores how sleep patterns change and develop during and after the college transition. This study begins data collection during the first year of college to capture the development of sleep patterns throughout college. Teasing apart sociodemographic and environmental impacts of sleep behavior, this study explores systematic differences by ethnicity/race, age, gender, 1st-generation college students, SES, and commuters versus on-campus residents. FUSS is designed to investigate how sleep behaviors and patterns in college impact the downstream development of health disparities.
About Participation
About Participation
Beginning in their first year at Fordham, participants will wear a medical-grade sleep watch for 14 days while also completing nightly surveys about daily sleep/wake times and activities, feelings, and behaviors. Participants also complete a survey before the 14-day data collection and another after the 14 days they wear the sleep watch. In the spring semester, students repeat the same procedures as the fall. In addition, biological health indicators such as height, weight, hair, and dried blood spot samples are collected to measure physiological stress and biological functioning. This routine will be the same for all four years until students have graduated college.
Sleep Watch
Sleep Watch
The sleep watch tracks activity levels and sleep. It allows us to collect accurate data on participants’ behaviors. Your data will be kept confidential and will only be used for study purposes.
The sleep watch tracks activity levels and sleep. It allows us to collect accurate data on participants’ behaviors. Your data will be kept confidential and will only be used for study purposes.
Please do not take the sleep watch off!!!
Visit our FAQ page if you have questions about the sleep watch.
FUSS Compensation
FUSS Compensation
Participants could earn up to $1,142 by their senior year!
Participants could earn up to $1,142 by their senior year!
Who is eligible to begin participation?
Who is eligible to begin participation?
We are not currently recruiting new participants.
Detailed Timeline
Detailed Timeline
This is a 4-year study with data collection occurring every semester(fall and spring) from your 1st year through graduation. Compensation increases for each semester that you participate.
Timeline of the Study
Timeline of the Study
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