Is a video-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia as efficacious as a professionally administered treatment in breast cancer? Results of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To assess the short-term efficacy of a video-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) as compared to a professionally administered CBT-I and to a no-treatment group.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Radio-oncology department of a public hospital affiliated with Université Laval (CHU de Québec).

Participants

Two hundred forty-two women with breast cancer who had received radiation therapy in the past 18 mo and who had insomnia symptoms or were using hypnotic medications were randomized to: (1) professionally administered CBT-I (PCBT-I; n = 81); (2) video-based CBT-I (VCBT-I; n = 80); and (3) no treatment (CTL; n = 81).

Interventions

PCBT-I composed of six weekly, individual sessions of approximately 50 min; VCBT-I

SUBMITTER: Savard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4096199 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature