Trial reportJournal of sleep research2019
CBT for late-life insomnia and the accuracy of sleep and wake perceptions: Results from a randomized-controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of sleep research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
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- Change in Dysfunctional Sleep-Related Beliefs is Associated with Changes in Sleep and Other Health Outcomes Among Older Veterans With Insomnia: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Trial
- Sleep Discrepancy in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Insomnia in Older Adults.Behavioral sleep medicineTrial
- Why sleep matters in chronic pain: evidence across the lifespan.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
- Prevalence, Clinical Correlates, Gender Differences, and Predictive Factors of Paradoxical Insomnia in Chinese Adults with Chronic Insomnia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Effect of lemborexant on sleep-wake state discrepancy in participants with insomnia disorder.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Cognitive Interventions for the Treatment of Insomnia or Poor-Quality Sleep in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The impact of exercise interventions on sleep in adult populations with depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress: review of the current evidence and future directions.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Review
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia decreases the discrepancy between objective and subjective measures of sleep.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2025Article
- Treatment Modalities for Insomnia in Adults Aged 55 and Older: A Systematic Review of Literature from 2018 to 2023.Current sleep medicine reports · 2024Article
- Sleep-wake state discrepancy among cancer survivors with insomnia symptoms.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Patient reported preferences for sleep interventions among women receiving buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Sleep disturbances and the speed of multimorbidity development in old age: results from a longitudinal population-based study.BMC medicine · 2020Article
- Actigraphic multi-night home-recorded sleep estimates reveal three types of sleep misperception in Insomnia Disorder and good sleepers.Journal of sleep research · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Subjective and objective estimates of sleep are often discordant among individuals with insomnia who typically under-report sleep time and over-report wake time at night. This study examined the impact and durability of cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia on improving the accuracy of sleep and wake perceptions in older adults, and tested whether changes in sleep quality were related to changes in the accuracy of sleep/wake perceptions. One-hundred and fifty-nine older veterans (97% male, mean age 72.2 years) who met diagnostic criteria for insomnia disorder were randomized to: (1) cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia (n = 106); or (2) attention control (n = 53). Assessments were conducted at baseline, post-treatment, 6-months and 12-months follow-up. Sleep measures included objective (via wrist actigraphy) and subjective (via self-report diary) total sleep time and total wake time, along with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score. Discrepancy was computed as the difference between objective and subjective estimates of wake and sleep. Minutes of discrepancy were compared between groups across time, as were the relationships between Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores and subsequent changes in discrepancy. Compared with controls, participants randomized to cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia became more accurate (i.e. minutes discrepancy was reduced) in their perceptions of sleep/wake at post-treatment, 6-months and 12-months follow-up (p < .05). Improved Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores at each study assessment preceded and predicted reduced discrepancy at the next study assessment (p < .05). Cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia reduces sleep/wake discrepancy among older adults with insomnia. The reductions may be driven by improvements in sleep quality. Improving sleep quality appears to be a viable path to improving sleep perception and may contribute to the underlying effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia.
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