The Big Taping Truth Trial

The Research Question

In the general population, does mouth taping during sleep improve sleep quality?
If you want to learn more, you can read our review of the existing evidence.

In order to participate...

Requirements:

• Must have your own fitness tracker -- either Oura, Whoop, or Fitbit/Pixel
• Willing to share your data
• Able to put on mouth tape for 30 nights of sleep, according to a randomized treatment schedule

BENEFITS:

• Receive a personalized report at the end about how mouth taping impacted you!
• Contribute to the largest study to date on mouth taping. In the best case scenario, we discover a simple and cheap intervention to help people improve their sleep and breathing quality, otherwise we get to debunk a popular trend.

Participation Overview

You will receive a randomized taping assignment each night for 30 nights. For each night, you will be asked to either place a strip of tape over your mouth ("mouth") or on your face not covering your mouth ("face").‍

Your individual, randomly assigned taping schedule will be emailed to you upon onboarding, and you will also receive a daily reminder of each night's assignment via email.

Each day, you must fill out the brief daily survey that is emailed to you.

If you need a few days to get started (e.g. waiting for tape order to arrive), simply join into following the schedule when you are ready (e.g. start on Day 3). Let us know in the daily survey by honestly responding to "Did you follow your tape assignment last night?".

At the end, there will be a final survey. Depending on what tracking you participated in, we may ask you to export and share some additional data. Everyone who completes the study will receive a personalized report with your results.

Study Materials

Mouth Tape

You can use any kind of porous tape that is intended for use on human skin. Maybe you already have some, otherwise you can go to any pharmacy or order it online. We like this one, or this one which is a bit stickier if you have facial hair.  

For any further questions, please contact mouthtaping@cosimoresearch.com.