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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Patient Therapeutic Education on Chronic Insomnia

Etude Pilote d'évaluation de l'efficacité de l'ETP Sur l'Insomnie Chronique

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05000528
Acronym
ETP-INSOMNIE
Enrollment
44
Registered
2021-08-11
Start date
2022-09-30
Completion date
2025-09-29
Last updated
2024-12-18

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Conditions

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Brief summary

20 to 30% of the general population suffers from chronic insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the first-line treatment, but unfortunately its implementation is complex. Long waiting times for a consultation / exploration, too short a consultation period, non-reimbursement of specialists and a lack of trained staff make the current care of insomniac patients difficult. Patients are thus treated late, often with heavy drug treatment, dependence on sleeping pills, difficult withdrawal and / or reactive mood disorders. The treatment is therefore limited to advice on sleep hygiene and a restriction of time spent in bed without ultimately intervening in the cognitive domain. Therapeutic education consists of empowering the patient in the management of chronic insomnia through group education workshops. The patient learns the principles of normal sleep, the way in which sleep evolves with aging, the dangers of treatments as well as the rules of sleep hygiene and the behaviors to modify to sleep well. In addition to benefiting from sharing of experience with other patients, therapeutic education makes the care pathway smoother and considerably reduces the long waiting times of the traditional care pathway in consultation. The study investigators hypothesize that therapeutic education is more effective as a treatment for chronic insomnia than traditional management in individualized consultation (IC). Thus, therapeutic education could constitute an effective alternative to CBT.

Interventions

OTHERtherapeutic education

In groups of 5-6, patients will have a one-day therapeutic training session comprising 4 workshops: how to create a sleep agenda; normal sleep; sleep hygiene; medical treatments.

once from inclusion for 2 weeks, second for 2 weeks starting 2 weeks after intervention

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* The patient must have given their free and informed consent * The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan * Patient must understand and read French * Patient with ICSD-3 diagnostic criteria for chronic insomnia: ISI score \> 14/28.

Exclusion criteria

* Patient with cognitive impairment as assessed by the investigator * Patient with shift work * Patients scoring \> 10/24 on the Epworth sleepiness scale * Patient suffering from medical or psychiatric illnesses which may, in the opinion of the investigator, compromise the subject's state of health or ability to participate in the study. * Patient with chronic alcohol consumption or drug abuse * Patient unable to express consent. * Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding patient. * The subject is participating in a category 1 interventional study, or is in a period of exclusion determined by a previous study * It is impossible to give the subject informed information * The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Improvement in chronic insomnia between groupsDay 28Change in Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score (Score between 0 - 28) from inclusion

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Change in time in bed between groupsDay 28Change in time in bed (minutes) from inclusion
Change in effective sleepDay 28Time between going to bed and falling asleep (minutes). Average time for the 2 weeks following inclusion versus the 2 weeks preceding the study end measured by actimetry bracelet
Dose of any hypnotic drugs taken between groupsDay 28
Change in sleep latencyDay 28% total sleeping time / time in bed. Average time for the 2 weeks following inclusion versus the 2 weeks preceding the study end measured by actimetry bracelet
Change in intra-sleep timeDay 28Change in time between going to bed and falling asleep (minutes) since inclusion, data collected from patient sleep agenda
Change in anxiety since baseline between groupsDay 28State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y). Self-questionnaire assessing anxiety-status (AE) reflecting the current emotional state and anxiety-trait (AT) reflecting the usual emotional state. Total score 20-80.
Change in depression since baseline between groupsDay 28Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The total score is obtained by adding the scores of the 13 items. This score will be between 0 and 63. The higher the score, the more depressed the subject is.
Change in quality of life since baselineDay 28Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep - 16 (DBAS-16). This self-questionnaire is composed of 16 items: Perceived consequences of insomnia (5 items), Worry/impotence about insomnia (6 items), Sleep expectations (2 items), Medication (3 items). The global score is an average of the scores of each item, ranging from 0 to 10. The higher the score, the more dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep
Change in total sleeping time between groupsDay 28Change in total sleeping time (minutes) from inclusion
Use of anxiolytic drugs between groupsDay 28Yes/no for each type
Dose of any anxiolytic drugs taken between groupsDay 28
Completion of therapeutic education sessions of patients in the therapeutic education groupDay 28Yes/no
Length of workshops in the therapeutic education groupDay 28Minutes
Problems encountered during workshops of patients in the therapeutic education groupDay 28Descriptive list made by investigator
Patient-reported reason for refusal to participate in the therapeutic education groupDay 28Descriptive list of reasons given by the patient
Improvement in chronic insomnia between groupsMonth 4Change in Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score (Score between 0 - 28) from inclusion
Use of hypnotic drugs between groupsDay 28Yes/no for each type

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactBeatriz Abril
beatriz.abril@chu-nimes.fr04.66.68.77.30

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026