Group Treatment for Insomnia in Primary Health Care (Sleep Prime)

Jeanette Westman

Status: Completed

Conditions: Insomnia

Treatments: Behavioral: Group treatment for insomnia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01731223

CeFAM, Karolinska Institutet

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to analyze if group treatment is effective to treat insomnia in primary healthcare.

Full description

Insomnia is a common health problem. Untreated insomnia may lead to decreased physical and mental health. The patients turns to Primary Health Care when daytime symptoms decrease social and occupational function. Previous studies have shown that cognitive and behavioral therapy have effects on insomnia and recommends as first line treatment but is not widely available in primary health care.

The purpose is to test the effect of group intervention in Primary Health Care for patients with insomnia. The outcomes is insomnia severity, sleep habits, use of hypnotics, Fatigue, general health and health related quality of life. Characters with insomnia visiting in Primary Health Care.

Enrollment: 165 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Insomnia symptoms regarding DSM-V
• Motivated to group treatment.

Exclusion criteria

• Insomnia Severity Index less than 7 points
• Presence of acute life crises, acute psychiatric illness, bipolar disorder
• Shift work
• Linguistic or cognitive difficulties causing inability participate in group or fill in forms
• Insomnia directly caused by medical illness. Other sleep disorder.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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165 participants in 2 patient groups

Group treatment for insomnia

Experimental group

Description:

Group treatment for insomnia.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group treatment for insomnia

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Treatment as usual