Sleep in addiction care

Completed

Conditions: Insomnia in patients with substance use disorder
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Nonorganic sleep disorders

Registration Number: ISRCTN59953554

Lead Sponsor: Mental Health Group in North and Middle Limburg (GGZ Noord- en Midden-Limburg) (Netherlands)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

1. Both males and females, age limit: 65
2. Patients who are admitted for at least 5 weeks to an addiction clinic
3. Those who are clean i.e. addicted patients that do not use drugs/alcohol anymore
4. Score of 5 or higher in the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients with sleep problems other than problems of initiating or maintaining sleep
2. Diagnosis of severe depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
3. Patients who have a primary benzodiazepine addiction

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Subjective sleep efficiency as measured by a sleep log. The sleep log will be recorded by the participants during the 6-week treatment period. The sleep log has several outcome measures: time in bed (TIB), total sleep time (TST), sleep onset latency (SOL), sleep efficiency (SE), wake after sleep onset (WASO) and number of awakenings (AWAK). <br>2. Sleep quality measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) at timepoints T0, T1, T2, T3 and T4<br><br>Timepoints:<br>T0 = Day of clinical intake<br>T1 = 4th week of treatment<br>T2 = 6th week of treatment, before randomisation<br>T3 = At the end of sleep training<br>T4 = 2 months after the sleep training

Secondary Outcome Measures