NCT03684057

Targeting Worry to Improve Sleep

Targeting Worry to Improve Sleep Using App-Based Mindfulness Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test an app-based mindfulness training program for worry to see if it can help individuals decrease worry and improve sleep.

Detailed description

In this study, 80 individuals with worry interfering with sleep will be randomized to receive Unwinding Anxiety or to Treatment as Usual (50/50 chance). The active intervention period will last 2 months, with an optional 2-month follow-up period in which the intervention remains available. Changes in mindfulness, emotional reactivity, cognition and sleep behavior at specified time points will be measured. The primary engagement targets will be non-reactivity and worry. The primary behavioral outcome target will be sleep.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Sleep Disturbance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	App-Delivered Mindfulness Training (MT)	Unwinding Anxiety is an app-delivered mindfulness training program which includes a progression through 30+ daily modules. Each module's training is delivered via short video tutorials and animations (\~10 min/day). Each training builds on the previous one; modules are 'locked' so that they can only be viewed at a pace of 1/day (previous modules can be reviewed at any time). A built-in self-assessment is taken after every seven modules to ensure key concepts are learned before moving on with automated suggestions on which modules to repeat based on the self-assessment results. User-initiated guided practices range from short exercises (30 seconds) to manage anxiety the moment it arises to formal guided meditations (up to 15 minutes), and can be accessed at any time

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-25
• Primary completion: 2020-02-26
• Completion: 2020-02-26
• First posted: 2018-09-25
• Last updated: 2022-10-10
• Results posted: 2022-10-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States