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The National Dairy Council invites the submission of pre-proposals that examine the role of dairy foods, dairy-derived ingredients, and/or unique dairy-derived bioactives in supporting multidimensional sleep health. The focus should be on adults and leverage either longitudinal observational datasets or human clinical trials.
Primary sleep-related outcomes of interest may include core dimensions of sleep health—such as duration, continuity, timing, regularity, and satisfaction—assessed using validated subjective instruments and/or objective measures (e.g., total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, sleep timing or regularity), consistent with NIH- and AHA-recognized sleep health frameworks.
Sleep-related daytime functioning may be included as a complementary outcome and may reflect downstream consequences of sleep health (e.g., daytime alertness or sleepiness, fatigue, cognitive or emotional functioning, appetite regulation, or functional impairment), where mechanistically linked to the primary sleep outcomes.
Proposed studies should specify primary sleep health dimensions of interest, justify measurement approaches, and articulate plausible biological or behavioral pathways linking dairy foods or dairy-derived components to sleep and downstream health outcomes.
Important Note:
Only the Primary Investigator, as the ‘Submittable’ account holder, can submit applications and receive all notifications about this submission.