Sleep Well: Digital Insomnia Treatment Program For Physicians

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot Study: Sleep Well: Implementing an Evidence-Based Digital Insomnia Treatment Program For Physicians

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05289596
• Other study ID #: 2021P000927
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 4, 2022
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Sleep disturbance is risk factor for incident depression and remains a leading concern for physician burnout; as sleep plays a fundamental role in mood, stress, and cognition, including medical errors. The goal of this project is to implement an evidence-based digital therapy to treat insomnia (Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) for physicians to improve both sleep and mental health outcomes. The investigators will evaluate both process and individual-outcome metrics to define success. Individual level outcomes will be assessed pre-program (at start of participation), week 8 (end-program), and week 16 (2-month follow-up). This information will enable us to design larger future implementation initiatives for the healthy sleep program across the hospital, should the pilot be successful.

Description:

The goal of this project is to implement an evidence-based digital therapy to treat insomnia (Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (shut-i) for physicians to improve both sleep and mental health outcomes. The investigators will evaluate both process and individual-outcome metrics to define success. This information will enable us to design larger future implementation initiatives for the healthy sleep program across the hospital, should the pilot be successful. The investigators plan to enroll 25 physicians who screen positive for insomnia (ISI >7). Interested potential participants will complete a preliminary screening to assess eligibility. Refusal rates and eligibility status will be tracked for recruitment yields. Recruitment will be done via hospital newsletters, information boards, emails, and faculty meetings. Screening will be done through self-service digital questionnaire. Eligible participants will review an e-consent factsheet (REDCap). Those who enroll will complete surveys at baseline (pre-program), week 8 (end of program), and week 16 (2-month follow-up) securely via REDCap. In addition, feasibility and acceptability data based on the RE-AIM framework and a sub-sample of participants will be invited to an optional intervention feedback interview. The investigators will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of recruiting from our target population, delivering our intervention with high adherence and fidelity, and estimating effect sizes of our patient-reported outcomes, including sleep duration, quality, mood, and burnout. Assessment criteria will be based on the RE-AIM model for program evaluation (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance). It will be the responsibility of the PI to oversee the safety of the study. The PI will follow the Partners' policy Reporting Unanticipated Problems including Adverse Events (Rev. 9/24/2014) and will promptly report problems to the PHRC.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 25
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a digital device with reliable internet access
• Physician within the BWH Physician Organization
• Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score =8
• Able to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Shift work >1 day/week over the treatment course
• Excessive daytime sleepiness (ESS=16)
• History of bipolar disorder
• History of seizure within the past year

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Burnout, Professional
• Dyssomnias
• Insomnia
• Parasomnias
• Sleep Disturbance
• Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUT-i)
SHUTi is a six session, 6-8 week cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia program over the internet. The online, self-paced program offers illustrations, graphics, videos and built-in algorithms offering brief sleep diaries, personalized sleep window recommendations, education from sleep experts, peer stories about insomnia, and skills to help participants relearn proper sleep dynamics and increase sleep efficiency.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Sleep Disturbance, 8b	PROMIS Sleep Disturbance measures self-reported sleep quality and associated daytime functioning during the past seven days. The measure includes 8-items with higher scores indicating greater sleep disturbance. The minimum score is 8 and the maximum score is 40. Item responses are combined to yield a T-score with a population mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10.	10 weeks
Secondary	PROMIS Sleep Impairment, 8a	PROMIS Sleep Impairment measures self-reported perceptions of alertness, sleepiness, and tiredness during usual waking hours, and the perceived functional impairments during wakefulness associated with sleep problems or impaired alertness during the past seven days. The measure includes 8-items with higher scores indicating greater sleep impairment. The minimum score is 8 and the maximum score 40. Item responses are combined to yield a T-score with a population mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10.	10 weeks
Secondary	Insomnia Severity Index, ISI	The Insomnia Severity Index is a 7-item self-report questionnaire assessing the nature, severity, and impact of insomnia in the last month. A 5-point Likert scale is used to rate each item (e.g., 0 = no problem; 4 = very severe problem), yielding a total score ranging from 0 to 28. The total score is interpreted as follows: absence of insomnia (0-7); sub-threshold insomnia (8-14); moderate insomnia (15-21); and severe insomnia (22-28).	10 weeks