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Can we modify maladaptive attributions for fatigue?

Andrea L Harris¹, Colleen E Carney

¹Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

|January 5, 2012

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Participants with insomnia can learn to attribute daytime fatigue to causes other than sleep. This information-based approach may reduce sleep-related anxiety and improve insomnia treatments.

Area of Science:

Psychology
Sleep Medicine
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Background:

Insomnia patients often attribute daytime fatigue solely to sleep disturbances.
This narrow focus can exacerbate anxiety and perpetuate sleep problems.
Alternative attributions for fatigue are underexplored in insomnia research.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if an information-based intervention can shift attributions for daytime fatigue away from sleep.
To explore a novel approach for potentially refining insomnia treatments.

Main Methods:

A randomized controlled trial with 88 undergraduate students.
Two groups: fatigue information (focusing on non-sleep causes) and a control (sleep information).
Pre- and post-intervention assessments of fatigue attributions.

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Participants receiving fatigue information were more likely to consider non-sleep-related causes of fatigue post-intervention.
The intervention successfully broadened attributional focus compared to the control group.
Results suggest attributions for fatigue are modifiable.

Conclusions:

Information-based interventions can alter how individuals attribute daytime fatigue.
This study provides a preliminary step towards developing new insomnia treatment strategies.
Targeting attributional biases may be a viable component of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I).