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Efficacy of Sleep Hygiene Intervention in Elderly With Insomnia
Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Summary
Sleep disorders are common among elderly, especially among those with mental health disorders. Impaired quality of sleep, in elderly, can lead to worsening of mental and physical health too. Due to high patient to doctor ratio in India and paucity of time in busy outpatients, there is inadequate information on causes of poor sleep quality in patients and a tendency to treat poor sleep with drugs. Studies on effectiveness of sleep hygiene techniques in insomnia also tend to exclude elderly. Thus, investigators have inadequate evidence on the applicability of such interventions in the elderly. In this study it is proposed to find the efficacy of a sleep hygiene behavioural intervention on severity of insomnia in elderly with sleep disturbances.
Official title: A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of a Sleep Hygiene Behavior Intervention in Elderly With Insomnia
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2027-02
Completion Date
2027-12-31
Last Updated
2026-03-27
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Sleep hygiene
The intervention will be conducted over 6 weeks, and consist of engaging patients (and caregivers) in two 60-minute face to face sessions 3 weeks apart, and twice weekly telephonic follow ups lasting for 20 minutes each during the 6-week period. The 2 Direct face to face sessions in local language will focus on health education about sleep. (After taking consent) 1. st session (60 mins) Information will be given about lifestyles that can affect sleep positively or negatively- adequate sleep time required for health, healthy and unhealthy sleep habits 2. nd session Participants will be asked to indicate how many of the sleep hygiene techniques they were able to successfully implement since the previous session Successes and barriers will be discussed. provide solutions for standard difficulties faced Twice a week telephone calls. The participants will be followed up through telephonic conversation twice weekly with a gap of three to four days in between each call.
Locations (1)
St.John's Medical College and Hospital
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India