Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in stable heart failure: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic insomnia is associated with disabling symptoms and decrements in functional performance. It may contribute to the development of heart failure (HF) and incident mortality. In our previous work, cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), compared to HF self-management education, provided as an attention control condition, was feasible, acceptable, and had large effects on insomnia and fatigue among HF patients.

Objectives

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate the sustained effects of group CBT-I compared with HF self-management education (attention control) on insomnia severity, sleep characteristics, daytime symptoms, symptom clusters, functional performance, and health care utilization among patients with stable HF.

SUBMITTER: Redeker NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5348292 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature