Insomnia Clinical Trial
Official title:
Prevalence and Characteristics of Sleep Disturbances Among Psychiatric Inpatients
Decades of research have shown that sleep disturbances are common among patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Such reported sleep disturbances include disrupted sleep efficiency and continuity, sleep quality complaints, insomnia, and nightmares. While traditional models suggest that certain sleep alterations are specific for certain mental disorders, newer models assume a transdiagnostic or dimensional view of sleep disturbances in mental disorders. Findings of a recent meta-analysis support the transdiagnostic or dimensional association between sleep disorders and psychiatric conditions. Additionally, the period just prior to sleep has recently received increased clinical and research interest, with studies investigating cognitive activity and rumination prior to sleep. However, only few studies compare sleep in different psychiatric diagnoses and the characteristics of sleep in different mental disorders are still not understood well enough for concrete implications for clinical practice. This is especially true for the population of psychiatric inpatients. In this study, the outcome measures and study variables will be measured with standardised and validated questionnaires, structured clinical interview, and a commercially available Fitbit Charge 2 tracker. Participants will be recruited from the inpatient units of the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich (PUK). Screening will be conducted by the applicant and master's students enrolled in the project, using electronic patient files at the hospital. The patients will be invited to the study by their treating physician or psychologist. Assessments will consist of one interview and filling out of questionnaires (with a 30- to 45-minute duration respectively). A sub-sample will wear fill out a sleep diary for seven consecutive nights as well as wear a Fitbit Charge 2 tracker, which they will return a week later. Each patient will receive participant reimbursement of 30 Swiss francs (CHF) for their participation in the study.
Sleep disturbances are common among psychiatric patients. In fact, most psychiatric disorders
are afflicted with sleep disturbances. Mechanistical underpinnings and associations between
sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions have been an active field of research.
Individuals with alcohol or substance abuse reported disrupted sleep efficiency and
continuity, as well as rates of insomnia as high as 72%. In schizophrenia, insomnia and other
sleep-related abnormalities are also common, with prevalence rates of 30% to 80%. Moreover,
individuals with mood disorders describe a range of difficulties with sleep continuity and
quality. Another study in depressed individuals reported rates as high as 90% of reported
sleep quality complaints. Similarly, anxiety disorders are highly associated with sleep
disorders. The fact that sleep disturbance is a diagnostic symptom for disorders such as
generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) underpins the
relationship between anxiety and sleep. In PTSD for example, difficulty initiating and
maintaining sleep and nightmares affect approximately 70% of individuals afflicted with this
disorder. Reexperiencing in the form of distressing dreams and intrusive trauma memories
prior to initiating sleep are commonly reported in this group. Taken together, these reports
show that sleep problems are common in psychiatric patients. Some theoretical models suggest
that certain sleep alterations are specific for certain mental disorders. Newer models,
however, suggest a transdiagnostic or dimensional understanding of sleep in mental disorders,
assuming sleep as an underlying dimension of mental disorders, with the same sleep
alterations occurring in different mental disorders. Few studies comprise large enough
numbers to compare different psychiatric diagnoses, however, and thus, few data exist on the
specificity of various sleep abnormalities. In a notable exception, a meta-analysis
investigated sleep disturbances across psychiatric disorders, reviewing studies using
polysomnographic measurements. The authors found that no single sleep variable appeared to
have absolute specificity for any particular psychiatric disorder and that patterns of sleep
disturbances associated with categories of psychiatric disorders were observed. Additionally,
the subtypes of diagnosis groups often differed in their profiles of sleep alterations. Thus,
these results support the transdiagnostic view of sleep disturbances in mental disorders. In
the light of these findings, however, it is interesting that the period just prior to sleep
onset has recently received increased research and clinical interest. Pre-sleep cognitive
activity of individuals suffering from insomnia has been shown to be more focused on worries,
problems and noises in the environment and less focused on nothing in particular, compared to
good sleepers. There is also evidence that rumination prior to sleep is associated with sleep
disturbance (increased sleep onset latency, reduced sleep quality, reduced sleep efficiency,
and increased wakefulness after sleep onset). Identification of potential disorder-specific
as well as transdiagnostic pre-sleep processes would be helpful for diagnosing and treating
patients. This is particularly important considering the heavy personal burden associated
with psychiatric disorders and sleep disturbances. Most of the studies investigating sleep
disturbances in psychiatric disorders have been conducted in psychiatric outpatients.
Psychiatric inpatients and the even more severely afflicted patients who often suffer from
comorbid diagnoses and possible additional social problems, have so far been mostly excluded.
There are a few studies, which investigated sleep problems in psychiatric inpatients and/or
patients with severe mental illness. Furthermore, although the period just prior to sleep
onset has recently received increased research and clinical interest, a systematic
investigation of individuals with diagnosed psychiatric disorders in terms of this specific
sleep characteristic is lacking so far. The present study therefore aims to help fill this
gap and study sleep problems, including pre-sleep processing in psychiatric inpatients.
Additionally, studies investigating sleep disturbances using samples of patients with
different psychiatric disorders are lacking. Thus, in order to understand the differences in
sleep disturbances between different psychiatric diagnoses or symptom clusters, different
studies have to be compared. Since these studies often differ in the samples and methods
used, conclusions drawn from these comparisons are limited. For this reason, studies using
samples of psychiatric patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders are warranted.
For this study, participants will be recruited from the inpatient units of the Psychiatric
University Hospital Zurich (PUK). Consultant psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as
nursing personnel in the inpatient units of the PUK will support recruitment and one or two
master students will help organise the study. All patients eligible for the study will be
recruited consecutively. The applicant and master's students enrolled in the project will
screen newly admitted psychiatric inpatients for inclusion and exclusion criteria in the
electronic patient files. The information needed for the screening is part of standard
assessments at the hospital. The treating psychologists or physicians will then be contacted
directly by the applicant or master's students. The treating psychologists and physicians
will invite the patients who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria to the study. Prior to
the first session, the applicant or master's students will use the patient's electronic file
to document medical information, such as medical history, current primary diagnosis, and
current medication. The first session, which will be led by the applicant or master's
students, will consist of informed consent, a clinical interview, and a first set of
self-report questionnaires, which will assess primary psychiatric diagnoses, measure
demographic and personal information, sleep disorders, sleep characteristics, several
psychological variables (such as emotional regulation, rumination, and mindfulness) and
current symptom severity of the primary diagnosis. A sub-sample of patients will receive a
sleep diary and a Fitbit Charge 2 tracker as well as information regarding its application.
They will wear the Fitbit tracker on the wrist of their non-dominant hand at all times for a
week (except during showers and / or charging). A week later, the questionnaires and/or diary
and Fitbit tracker will be collected. Additionally, patients will be asked if they have any
questions or whether they ran into any problems. After data collection is completed, each
patient will receive participant reimbursement of 30 Swiss francs (CHF) for their
participation in the study.
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