Intensive Sleep Retraining Treatment of Insomnia

Leon Lack; Hannah Scott; Nicole Lovato

doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2019.01.005

Intensive Sleep Retraining Treatment of Insomnia

Sleep Med Clin. 2019 Jun;14(2):245-252. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2019.01.005. Epub 2019 Apr 2.

Authors

Leon Lack¹, Hannah Scott², Nicole Lovato³

Affiliations

¹ College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Electronic address: leon.lack@flinders.edu.au.
² College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
³ Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Mark Oliphant Building, GPO Box 2100, South Australia 5001, Australia.

PMID: 31029190
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2019.01.005

Abstract

Effective and durable cognitive/behavioral therapies for insomnia are time consuming and not readily available to the large insomnia population. Intensive sleep retraining (ISR) provides multiple (>40) short (<5-minute) sleep latencies over a 24-hour period. Two pilot studies and a randomized controlled trial have shown that ISR is an immediately effective and durable treatment of sleep-onset insomnia. Its major disadvantage of dependence on sleep laboratory resources has now been overcome with the development of wearable devices using behavioral responses as the indicator of sleep onset to allow for the inexpensive, practical administration of ISR at home.

Keywords: Behavioral measure of sleep onset; Cognitive and behavioral therapy for insomnia; Insomnia; Intensive sleep retraining; Sleep deprivation; Sleep-onset insomnia; Sleep-onset latency.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Behavior Therapy / methods*
Humans
Sleep Deprivation*
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / therapy*
Sleep Stages*