Kneipp Water Applications for Insomnia (KWAI)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Disturbance

Treatments: Procedure: footbath; Behavioral: care of sleep

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03114189

16-7003-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether warm footbathes are effective on sleep disturbances in women before climacteric.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Minimum age: 18 years
• Regularly recurring sleeping disease (not less then 2 times a week for minimum 3 month)

Exclusion criteria

• secundary sleeping disease
• Mental diseases which require therapy
• Medication: benzodiazepine,Z-drugs, barbiturat, antihistaminika, melatonin
• Severe comorbidity
• Gravidity
• Shift work
• Voyages (>3 times during the study)
• regulary application of Kneipp
• Participation on other studies to therapy sleeping diseases or stress

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Footbath, care of sleep

Active Comparator group

Description:

Warm water (37°C) filled up to the level of the ankle. Water has to be heated up to 42°C and increased to the calf 's half height within 15 minutes. Information about wrong and correct behaviour.

Treatment:

Behavioral: care of sleep

Procedure: footbath

Care of sleep

Active Comparator group

Description:

Information about wrong and correct behaviour.

Treatment:

Behavioral: care of sleep