Scaling up sleep education and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia training across multiple health disciplines.
Scaling up sleep education and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia training across multiple health disciplines.
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在多个健康学科中扩大睡眠教育和认知行为治疗的失眠培训。
作者:
Vargas,Ivan
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is a well-established, empirically supported intervention for insomnia. CBT-I is a multi-component treatment for insomnia that targets difficulties with initiating and maintaining sleep. Standard treatment is delivered over six to twelve sessions (session length may vary between 30 and 90 minutes). Each session typically has a specific agenda (eg evaluation, rationale and delivery of individual interventions, adherence management, relapse prevention, etc.). Sessions most often occur in person or via telehealth on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule and can be delivered in either individual or group format. According to meta-analytic estimates, the average treatment effect sizes range from 1.0 to 1.2, which corresponds to approximately a 50% posttreatment reduction in individual insomnia symptoms [1, 2]. The effects of CBT-I are also stable over time (ie clinical gains can be maintained for up to 12 months posttreatment)[3]. These effects have now been replicated in studies of patients with psychiatric and medical comorbidities, such as depression, chronic pain, and cancer [4–6]. Taken together, it is not surprising that multiple societies and medical groups have recommended CBT-I as the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia [7–9]. The bottom line is clear: CBT-I works [10]. Despite this, CBT-I has not been widely used or adopted. There are several reasons why the dissemination of CBT-I into clinical practice continues to be a challenge, many of which were highlighted by Meaklim et al.[11] in this issue of SLEEP. The primary barriers being (1) limited public knowledge about the importance of sleep (on overall health) and the effectiveness of behavioral interventions for insomnia [12],(2) supply and demand issues (ie lack of trained therapists)[13, 14], and (3) access to formalized training for students and providers. Meaklim et al. used a RE-AIM knowledge translation framework to assess the feasibility, acceptance, and effectiveness of a novel online sleep education program for graduate psychology students. In this study, they were able to provide evidence supporting the utility of their training program,“The Sleep Psychology Workshop: Better Sleep for Better Mental Health.” In its current form, the Sleep Psychology Workshop is a 6-hour long training (delivered over multiple sessions). The study demonstrated that the workshop was successful across multiple levels. The workshop was well received by both students and programs (as evidenced by positive reviews from 96% of participants and requests from the majority of participating programs to deliver the workshop in subsequent years). The workshop considerably improved students’ sleep knowledge in the short term (within 2 weeks postworkshop). A large proportion of students who completed the workshop reported high self-efficacy in behavioral sleep medicine (BSM) skills at the 12-month follow-up. All this said, there are some important considerations that limit the overall potential impact of the Workshop. In the present study, for example, sleep knowledge at the 12-month follow-up was not assessed. It is therefore unclear whether participants retained the information that they learned during the workshop. Selfefficacy with BSM skills was assessed at the 12-month follow-up, though there was no comparison group for these analyses and so it is unclear whether these ratings are meaningfully different from individuals who have never received any formalized sleep training. Perhaps most importantly, the workshop was developed for psychology students and did not take into consideration whether trainees from other disciplines or programs would also benefit from …