Insomnia in the Patient With Schizophrenic Disorder: Evaluation of a CBT and Psychoeducational Intervention

David Batalla-Martin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia; Insomnia

Treatments: Behavioral: cognitive behavioural intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05115604

NBMH01/2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a cognitive behavioural and psychoeducational intervention in patients with insomnia and diagnosed with a schizophrenic disorder.

Full description

Patients will be recruited by consecutive non-probabilistic sampling at the Outpatient Mental Health Centre of Nou Barris in Barcelona and subsequently randomised into 2 groups, control and intervention. Presence and severity of insomnia will be assessed through the following measurement instruments: ISI for presence and severity, PSQI for sleep quality and EQ-5D for health-related quality of life. Patients in intervention will attend 6 group sessions with cognitive behavioural and psychoeducational intervention and the control group will carry out the usual follow-up. Pre-post, 6-month and 9-month assessments will be analysed.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Insomnia disorder (ISI scale)
• Schizophrenic disorder

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of severe psychopathological alteration
• Inability to understand the Spanish language or difficulties writing or reading

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Intrervention group

Experimental group

Description:

One and a half hour sessions (6 sessions) of cognitive behavioural therapy and psychoeducation. The sessions will consist of: sleep hygiene, cognitive therapy, bedtime restriction, stimulus control and relaxation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: cognitive behavioural intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

routine clinical follow-up