The Ritchie
Centre (TRC) is looking for children/teens between the ages of 3 and 18 years
to participate as controls in research sleep studies.
The Centre is carrying out studies on the effect of sleep
disordered breathing on blood flow to the brain and its relationship with
learning and behaviour. We are looking for non snoring 3–12 year old volunteers
to serve as controls. Participants will have an overnight sleep study at the
Melbourne Children’s Sleep Centre in the Monash Medical Centre.
We are also looking for 8–18 year old non snoring, normal-weight
volunteers to serve as controls in another study on the effects of being
overweight in childhood and snoring during sleep on brain structure,
academic performance and the cardiovascular system. The participants will
firstly have an MRI scan at the brand new Monash BioImaging Facility located in
Wellington Road opposite Monash University Clayton Campus. This will take about
an hour and afterwards have an overnight sleep study at the Melbourne Children’s
Sleep Centre in the Monash Medical Centre. Both of these procedures will be
performed on the same night.
During the sleep study, leads will be attached to measure brain
activity, breathing and heart rate whilst the participants sleep. None of these
measurements hurt the participants in any way and they will be able to see what
their brains are doing! Sleep studies are overnight from 7:00pm and there are
facilities for making tea and coffee and watching DVDs. A parent is required to
stay and sleep overnight, and staff and students will explain everything about
sleep to you. After the study a friendly psychologist will arrange a time to
visit your house for some fun psychological testing. Being poor researchers,
the only thing that can be offered in return for participation is free parking
and gratitude.
For further information please contact: Professor Rosemary
Horne, The Ritchie Centre Phone: 9594 5100 Email: rosemary.horne@monash.edu
or visit www.monashchildrenshospital.org, in the parents tab through
the Melbourne Childrens Sleep Centre page for more information. You can also
find us at www.facebook.com/pages/Paediatric-Sleep-Research
(This study has approval from the Monash University Human Research
Ethics Committee – Project Number 14024B/12276B)
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