A controlled comparative investigation of psychological treatments for chronic sleep-onset insomnia

Espie, Colin A. (1987) A controlled comparative investigation of psychological treatments for chronic sleep-onset insomnia. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

Seventy, GP-referred, sleep-onset insomniacs were randomly assigned to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment control groups. Following baseline assessment of sleep pattern and quality subjects received 8 weeks of treatment, comprising 4 weeks under counterdemand and 4 weeks under positive demand instruction to control for demand characteristics and expectancy effects. A further 14 patients were allocated consecutively to a tailored therapy condition as a development of the main study. Measures of treatment process and outcome were obtained from self-report instruments validated against objective monitoring via the `Somtrak

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General); B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
• Colleges/Schools: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences
• Supervisor's Name: Brooks, Prof. D.N. and Millar, Dr. K.
• Date of Award: 1987
• Depositing User: Geraldine Coyle
• Unique ID: glathesis:1987-822
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2009
• Last Modified: 12 Apr 2018 13:14
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/822