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| Psychological treatment of secondary insomnia | | Author(s) | Kenneth L Lichstein, Nancy M Wilson, Christopher T Johnson |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 232-240 |
| Keywords | Sleep disorders ; Psychiatric treatment. |
| Annotation | Secondary insomnia is sleep disturbance caused by a psychiatric or medical disorder; it is more common than primary insomnia which has a psychological origin. The present study randomly assigned older people with secondary insomnia to a treatment group (4 sessions composed of relaxation and stimulus control) or a no-treatment control group. Self-report assessments conducted at pre-treatment, post-treatment and a 3-month follow-up revealed that treated participants showed significantly greater improvement on wake time during the night, sleep efficiency percentage, and sleep quality rating. The authors hypothesise that treatment success was probably due in part to difficulty in diagnosing discrimination between primary and secondary insomnia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024203 A |
| Classmark | CTS: LP |
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