Online Self-Help Intervention for Insomnia: With or Without Feedback

Utrecht University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Insomnia

Treatments: Behavioral: CBT for insomnia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01456637

FPG-20106524

Details and patient eligibility

About

The object of this study is to determine whether feedback added to a self-help protocol for insomnia enhances the treatment effect. In this study all participants receive an online self-help cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention consisting of information (psycho-education) about sleep and cognitive-behavioural exercises. Adult persons with insomnia will be invited via a popular scientific website to fill out online questionnaires. Half of the participants will received by e-mail from a therapist, the other half of the participants will do the intervention without feedback. Participants will be measured 4, 16, and 40 weeks after intervention with the same questionnaires.

Enrollment: 262 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Insomnia
• Access to internet
• Dutch citizen

Exclusion criteria

• Alcohol or substance abuse
• Being suicidal
• Sleep apnea
• Schizophrenic or having a psychosis disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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262 participants in 2 patient groups

CBT for insomnia with feedback

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm participants received internet based self-help CBT for insomnia with e-mail feedback form a therapist.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CBT for insomnia

CBT for insomnia without feedback

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm participants receive internet based self-help CBT for insomnia without feedback from a therapist.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CBT for insomnia