NCT01955850

Online or Face-to-face Treatment for Insomnia?

Online or Face-to-face Treatment for Insomnia? A Wait-list Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: VU University of Amsterdam · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The object of this study is to compare internet-delivered treatment for insomnia to face-to-face treatment and a waiting-list. In this study participants are randomized to: 1) online cognitive-behavioral intervention; 2) face-to-face cognitive behavioral intervention; 3) waiting-list. Both the online and face-to-face interventions consist of: diary; psycho-education; relaxation exercises; stimulus control/sleep hygiene; sleep restriction; challenging the misconceptions about sleep; and paradoxical exercise. Adult persons with insomnia will be invited via a popular scientific website to fill out online questionnaires. Participants fill out questionnaires and a dairy at baseline post-test, 3-month follow-up, and 6-month follow-up. Participants on the waiting-list receive online treatment after the first post-test. The investigators expect that the online-delivered treatment and the face-to-face treatment are equally effective.

Conditions

• Insomnia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia	Cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia, consisting of: psycho-education, sleep hygiene, stimulus control, sleep restriction, cognitive therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-10-08
• Last updated: 2014-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands