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Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness and Safety of Shugan Jieyu Capsules for the Treatment of Insomnia
Published on: February 17, 2023
Intensive Sleep Retraining Treatment of Insomnia
Leon Lack1, Hannah Scott1, Nicole Lovato2
1College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
Abstract:
Effective and durable cognitive/behavioral therapies for insomnia are time consuming and not readily available to the large insomnia population. Intensive sleep retraining (ISR) provides multiple (>40) short (<5-minute) sleep latencies over a 24-hour period. Two pilot studies and a randomized controlled trial have shown that ISR is an immediately effective and durable treatment of sleep-onset insomnia. Its major disadvantage of dependence on sleep laboratory resources has now been overcome with the development of wearable devices using behavioral responses as the indicator of sleep onset to allow for the inexpensive, practical administration of ISR at home.
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