Online self help for better sleep in teachers with high occupational strain

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00004984

Enrollment

128

Registered

2013-05-16

Start date

2013-05-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

F51.0

Interventions

Group 1: • Arm 1: six week online training (pure self-help). Training consists of 6 modules, each taking circa 1 h to work through. During the traning, the primary study investigator is available in

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: clinic significant insomnia complaints (Insomnia Severity Indey=15); - occupational strain/problems with mentally detaching from work (irritation scale, subscale "cognitive Irritation" =15); - currently employed/in work as a teacher; - access to the internet; - valid e-mail address

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: at Baseline slightly suicidal (BDI II item 9 >1); - currently in psychotherapy or in a waitlist for psychotherapy; not willing to sign informed consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Insomnia Severity, measured with the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI; Morin, 2011) at Baseline and after the training (8 weeks)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
depressive Symptoms (CES-D): pre-treatment, post-treatment (8 weeks); worrying (Penn State Worry Questionnaire, PSWQ): pre, post; - psychological strain in the work context (Irritation Scale, IS): pre, post; sleep effort (Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale): pre, post (8 weeks); - restorativeness of the sleep(Schlaffragebogen B): pre, post; subjective quality of sleep (one item of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI): pre, post; recovery experience (Recovery Experience Questionnaire): pre, post; frequency of recovery activities (Recreation experience and activity questionnaire, ReaQ): pre, post; Health-Related Quality of Life (Short Form SF-12 Health Survey Questionnaire): pre, post; costs associated with nonorganic insomnia (for cost-effectiveness analyses) (German adaptation of the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for costs associated with psychiatric illness (TiC-P)): pre, post; work-related stress (Effort Reward Imbalance, short version, ERI-S): pre satisfaction with the online training (german adaptation of the ZUF 8, which is the german version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire, CSQ): post	—

Measure

Time frame

depressive Symptoms (CES-D): pre-treatment, post-treatment (8 weeks); worrying (Penn State Worry Questionnaire, PSWQ): pre, post; - psychological strain in the work context (Irritation Scale, IS): pre, post; sleep effort (Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale): pre, post (8 weeks); - restorativeness of the sleep(Schlaffragebogen B): pre, post; subjective quality of sleep (one item of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI): pre, post; recovery experience (Recovery Experience Questionnaire): pre, post; frequency of recovery activities (Recreation experience and activity questionnaire, ReaQ): pre, post; Health-Related Quality of Life (Short Form SF-12 Health Survey Questionnaire): pre, post; costs associated with nonorganic insomnia (for cost-effectiveness analyses) (German adaptation of the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for costs associated with psychiatric illness (TiC-P)): pre, post; work-related stress (Effort Reward Imbalance, short version, ERI-S): pre satisfaction with the online training (german adaptation of the ZUF 8, which is the german version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire, CSQ): post

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactHanne Thiart

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg GET.ON Gesundheitstraining.Online / Innovations-Inkubator

thiart@inkubator.leuphana.de04131 677 7637

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026