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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 wrist actigraph (sleep watch) for 14 days while completing nightly surveys that will record sleep/wake times and activities, feelings, and behaviors reflecting on the previous day. Participants are also asked to complete a pre-watch survey (before the 14-day data collection), post-watch survey, and to provide hair and dried blood spot samples (during the spring semester) to measure physiological stress and biological functioning in addition to the 14 days of data collection. This routine will be the same for all four years until students have graduated college.
Sleep Watch
Sleep Watch
The sleep watch tracks light and activity level. It allows us to collect accurate data on participants’ sleep patterns. Your data will be kept confidential and will only be used for study purposes.
The sleep watch tracks light and activity level. It allows us to collect accurate data on participants’ sleep patterns. 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 this year?
Who is eligible to begin participation this year?
We are looking for students who are...
In their first-year of college (Class of 2026)
Non-international
Not medically diagnosed with insomnia or sleep disordered breathing
Scan the QR code to take a 3-min screener to see if you're eligible!
Scan the QR code to take a 3-min screener to see if you're eligible!
Detailed Timeline
Detailed Timeline
Beginning in their first year at Fordham, participants will wear a wrist actigraph (sleep watch) for 14 days while completing nightly surveys that will record sleep/wake times and activities, feelings, and behaviors reflecting on the previous day. Participants are also asked to complete a pre-watch survey (before the 14-day data collection), post-watch survey (right after the 14-day data collection), and to provide hair and dried blood spot samples (during the spring semester) to measure physiological stress and biological functioning in addition to the 14 days of data collection.
Timeline of the Study
Timeline of the Study
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