Multicomponent Behavioral Sleep Intervention for Insomnia in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Completed

• Conditions: Mild Cognitive Impairment; Insomnia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Active Control; Behavioral: Multicomponent Behavioral Sleep Intervention for Insomnia

• Registration Number: NCT04364191
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

Insomnia symptoms in older adults with mild cognitive impairment represent a significant public health burden in terms of impaired quality of life, risks from untreated insomnia, and risks from pharmaceutical insomnia treatment. To address the limitations in the most effective non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, a randomized pilot study will be conducted to test a brief (4 week), tablet-based, personalized, multicomponent behavioral sleep intervention for insomnia, compared to a sleep education control, in this at-risk group. The findings of the proposed project will inform future, larger scale clinical trials and may provide a novel and innovative way for older adults with mild cognitive impairment to achieve better sleep and health-related quality of life outcomes.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-23
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-28
• Study Start: 2021-05-13
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-30
• Study Completion: 2022-08-30
• Results First Submitted: 2023-11-16
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-05-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-01
• Results First Posted: 2024-05-29
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

• 1. age 55 and older
• 2. mild cognitive impairment (MCI) The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status 13-item modified (TICS-M) version will be used to screen participants for eligibility in the study. We will include participants with TICS-M scores of 28-36, based off ranges and optimal cutpoints determined in various studies.
• 3. have insomnia symptoms a)answer yes to "Do you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, awakening too early, or have unrefreshing sleep" and b) have subjective sleep diary evidence of insomnia, with an average sleep onset latency >30 min or wakefulness after sleep onset of >60 min during the one week pre-treatment assessment
• 4. live in the community
• 5. speak English as primary language

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Exclusion Criteria

• 1. Presence of moderate to severe cognitive impairment defined as TICS score <28
• 2. Visual or manual dexterity impairment that prevents them from pressing yes/no buttons, or selecting a number at 24 point font
• 3. Current sedative-hypnotic or other sleep aid use on a regular or as needed schedule within the prior three months
• 4. Presence of an acute medical or psychiatric condition which, in the judgement of the research team, would interfere with the subject's ability to realistically follow the study protocol

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Arm	Active Control	Study participants in the control group will also receive a tablet and watch, but the meaningful activity modules and ART software will not be accessible to them. The sleep hygiene educational material represents an active control intervention and is recommended as part of the initial treatment of insomnia based on an NIH guide for sleep education. This approach provides staff and technology interaction/attention that is comparable to the intervention arm, and thereby promotes adherence; it has been used as a placebo comparator for many insomnia treatment studies and has low attrition rates. Control subjects will also be asked to complete electronic sleep diaries and wear the actiwatch on the non-dominant wrist to monitor sleep/wake patterns. For both arms, participants will be asked to complete baseline assessments, 4-week (post-intervention) and 12-week (follow-up).
Intervention Arm	Multicomponent Behavioral Sleep Intervention for Insomnia	Meaningful activity protocol during the day and Assisted Relaxation Therapy (ART) at night; includes 1) Sleep Hygiene Education; 2) Meaningful Activity Modules a) Physical Activity b) Cognitive Activity and c) Social engagement; 3) ART, a breath-based relaxation intervention that is coupled with a physical anchoring task. Participants will complete a daily sleep diary, use the activity modules daily as pre-determined times personalized to the participant, use the ART software when they get in bed to help with insomnia symptoms, and wear an actiwatch for a four-week period. Participants will have weekly to biweekly phone consultation with the research nurse.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sleep Latency	3 months post intervention	time it takes a person to fall asleep, starting from first intention to sleep; measured by sleep diary
Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL)	3 months post intervention	RAND Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 (SF-36) is a multidomain scale that measures physical and mental components of HRQOL with eight subscales. The 8 subscales include physical functioning, bodily pain, role limitations due to physical health problems, role limitations due to personal or emotional problems, general mental health, social functioning, energy/fatigue, and general health. All sub scales range from 0 to 100 (lower scores indicate worse HRQOL). For this primary analysis, we are using the general health sub scale, ranging from 0 to 100, where lower scores indicate worse HRQOL.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Wake After Sleep Onset (WASO)	3 months post intervention	time (in minutes) a person spends awake during the night, starting from the time the person falls asleep; derived from actigraphy monitoring; more WASO indicates worse sleep
Sleep Efficiency (SE)	3 months post intervention	Percent of time spent in bed that a person is asleep; calculated from actigraphy (time asleep/ time in bed)x 100%; lower SE indicates worse sleep
Total Sleep Time (TST)	3 months post intervention	Actual time (in minutes) a person is asleep during the nighttime sleep period; derived from actigraphy monitoring; normal sleep ranges from 420-480 minutes
Self-reported Sleep Quality	3 months post intervention	measured with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; score ranges from 0-21 with higher scores indicating poor sleep quality (worse outcomes)
Self- Reported Insomnia Symptoms	3 months post intervention	measured with the Insomnia Severity Index; score ranges from 0-28, with higher scores indicating more insomnia symptoms (thus worse outcomes)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States