Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Insomnia

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01719120

CBTI-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to develop an Internet-based self-help therapy program for insomnia in Chinese language, and to conduct a randomized waiting-list controlled trial on the efficacy of Internet-based self-help therapy for insomnia.

Full description

This study is a randomized controlled trial in patients with insomnia. Eligible subjects will be randomly assigned to self-help treatment with telephone consultation (SHTC), self-help treatment without telephone consultation (SH), or waiting-list control. The subjects will receive self-help treatment once per week for 6 consecutive weeks. In addition to self-help treatment, the subjects in SHTC group will receive telephone consultation once per week for 6 consecutive weeks.

Enrollment: 312 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hong Kong residents aged ≥18 years
• Predominant complaint of difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep or early morning awakening or nonrestorative sleep with associated distress or impairment in social, occupational and other important areas of functioning for at least 3 nights per week for at least 3 months based on self- administered questionnaire
• Able to read Chinese and type Chinese or English
• Have Internet access (PC/ mobile phone), and with an email address
• Willing to give informed consent and comply with the trial protocol

Exclusion criteria

• Have suicidal ideas based on self-report

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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312 participants in 3 patient groups

Self-help CBT with tel. consultation

Experimental group

Description:

Self-help CBT with tel. consultation (SHTC)group will receive telephone consultation provided by the investigator in addition to self-help cognitive-behavioral therapy once per week for 6 consecutive weeks.During the consultation, the investigator will answer questions about the treatment content, monitor whether the subjects read the assigned materials and comply with the tasks and procedures, and provide encouragement and support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Self-help CBT

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects will receive self-help cognitive-behavioral therapy (SH)once per week for 6 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Waiting-list control (WL)

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects in this group will not receive any kind of treatment during the waiting period. They will receive the treatment identical to the self-help group within 3 months from the baseline.