Three-Year Follow-Up of Insomnia and Hypnotics after Controlled Internet Treatment for Insomnia.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

To investigate the long-term effects of therapist-guided Internet-based insomnia treatment on insomnia severity and sleep medication use, compared with active control.

Methods

This study was an 8 week randomized controlled trial with follow-up posttreatment and at 6, 12, and 36 months, set at the Internet Psychiatry Clinic, Stockholm, Sweden. Participants were 148 media-recruited nondepressed adults with insomnia. Interventions were Guided Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (ICBT-i) or active control treatment (ICBT-ctrl). Primary outcome was insomnia severity, measured with the Insomnia Severity Index. Secondary outcomes were sleep medication use and use of other treatments.

Results

The large pretreatment to posttreatment improv

SUBMITTER: Blom K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4863216 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature