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NCT number NCT04616157
Other study ID # 2017/2315-31/2
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date September 1, 2018
Est. completion date July 1, 2020

Study information

Verified date October 2020
Source Karolinska Institutet
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The primary objective of this study is to test the feasibility and efficacy of Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adolescents (13 - 17 years) with sleep problems (ICBT-I). All participants will receive ICBT-I for six weeks. The investigators will also evaluate the effect of the intervention on comorbid psychiatric symptoms and function.


Description:

PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT: For recruitment, this pilot trial will be advertised at child and adolescent mental health services and primary care clinics, as well as through newspapers. The inclusion procedure will be carried out in two steps: 1) telephone interview and 2) face-to-face assessment. Telephone interview: An initial telephone interview will be conducted with the adolescent/parent in order to broadly assess inclusion and exclusion criteria. Face-to-face baseline diagnostic assessment: After the telephone screening, the adolescent along with his/her parents, are invited to a face-to-face assessment at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health clinic, including the diagnostic screening interview MINI-KID conducted with adolescents and parents jointly. Insomnia diagnoses will be established using DSM-IV criteria and levels of insomnia symptoms will be determined using ISI-a. If the ISI-a score is >10, the family will be invited to participate in the study, provided that the other inclusion criteria are fulfilled and no exclusion criteria prohibit participation. Following face-to-face assessment, participants will be provided with an information sheet and consent form. DATA COLLECTION: Baseline self-report measures: Participants included in the study after the face-to-face diagnostic assessment are asked to fill in self-report measures on the internet, provided via personal login and password. Participants will aslo be asked to fill in a sleep-wake diary and to wear an actigraph during seven consecutive days/nights. Self-rating assessments during intervention: ISI-a is administered to adolescents every week during treatment. Study participants are in regular contact (on a weekly basis) with experienced clinicians during the ICBT-I treatment. Clinicians that suspect any kind of adverse event during the assessment or treatment process will contact the parent via telephone as a first step of assessing the severity of the incident. Adverse events in this context are defined as an actual or potential situation that threatens the patient's well-being, e.g., suicide risk or an acute increase of symptoms. In the case of an adverse event, the clinician informs the study coordinator (LÅ) for a discussion of adequate action taking. If a continuation of the ICBT treatment is considered inappropriate with regard to the participants' best interest and well-being, the participant will be excluded from the study and parents/adolescents will be provided with proper referral information. Any adverse event will be reported in the planned publication of the pilot study. Outcome measure reliability procedures: To ensure the reliability of the assessments conducted by study clinicians, all assessors will be trained by experienced instructors in the diagnostic screening instrument MINI-KID. All therapists that participate in the study will also be continuously trained in MINI-KID interviewing, assessment and diagnosing. Post-treatment and follow-up measurement: Post-treatment measurement with actigraphy, sleep-wake diary and self-report measures will be conducted immediately after treatment (6 weeks after baseline). A follow-up measurement will be performed 6 months after treatment termination. Referral of non-responders After the 6-month follow-up, all non-responders (defined as those participants who have not improved to a clinically meaningful degree according to ISI-a) will be referred to their local child-and adolescent psychiatric clinic for further treatment. Statistical Analyses Outcomes will be described as significant changes in objective and subjective sleep and in clinician and self-rated measures of insomnia symptoms and comorbid symptoms, within-group effect sizes (Cohen's d), clinically significant improvement rates and remission rates. Analyses will involve t-tests as well as linear mixed-effects modeling. Randomness of missing data will be analyzed with logistic regression. Depending on the amount of missing data, multiple imputations will be employed to compensate for missing values.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 27
Est. completion date July 1, 2020
Est. primary completion date December 31, 2019
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 13 Years to 17 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Clinical levels of insomnia symptoms, as determined by ISI-a >10. - Age between 13 and 17 years - Ability to read and write Swedish - Daily access to the internet through a computer or similar device - Participants on psychotropic medication must have been on a stable dose for the last 6 weeks prior to baseline assessment Exclusion Criteria: - Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, psychosis or bipolar disorder - Present risk of suicide - Ongoing substance dependence - Completed CBT for sleep disorders within the last 6 months (defined as at least 5 sessions of CBT - Ongoing use of central nervous system stimulant medication

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
ICBT-I
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia

Locations

Country Name City State
Sweden BUP KFE Stockholm

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm County Council, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in insomnia symptom severity Insomnia Severity Index- adolescent version ISI is a seven-item measure that yields a quantitative index of sleep impairment and treatment outcome. Total scores range from 0 to 28, with higher scores indicating greater perceived insomnia severity. The instrument has been adapted to teenagers, ISI-a, and validated on Swedish teenagers. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in subjective total sleep time Measured with Sleep Wake Diary (SWD). The SWD is a subjective measure of participants' sleeping and waking times, from which total sleep time expressed in minutes is derived. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in subjective sleep onset latency Measured with Sleep Wake Diary (SWD). The SWD is a subjective measure of participants' sleeping and waking times from which latency until falling asleep, expressed in minutes, is obtained. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in subjective wake after sleep onset Measured with Sleep Wake Diary (SWD). The SWD is a subjective measure of participants' sleeping and waking times in which time awake expressed in minutes after sleep onset is obtained. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in subjective sleep efficiency Measured with Sleep Wake Diary (SWD). The SWD is a subjective measure of participants' sleeping and waking times, from which sleep efficency is computed as the quota between time sleeping/time spent in bed, expressed in percentage. A higher percentage denotes longer time asleep. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in objective sleep total sleep time Measured with wrist worn actigraph units. The actigraph unit will be worn during 7 consecutive days/nights at all three measurement occasion, from which total sleep time expressed in minutes is obtained. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in objective sleep onset latency Measured with wrist worn actigraph units. The actigraph unit will be worn during 7 consecutive days/nights at all three measurement occasions, from which time in minutes before falling asleep is obtained. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in objective wake after sleep onset Measured with wrist worn actigraph units. The actigraph unit will be worn during 7 consecutive days/nights at all three measurement occasions from which time being awake after sleep onset is obtained. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in objective sleep efficiency Measured with wrist worn actigraph units. The actigraph unit will be worn during 7 consecutive days/nights at all three measurement occasions, from which sleep efficency is computed as the quota between time sleeping/time spent in bed, expressed in percentage. A higher percentage denotes longer time asleep. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in symptoms of insomnia Measured with Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), a self-administered questionnaire consisting of eight items to measure symptoms of insomnia. Total scores range from 0 to 24. Higher scores indicate that responders more severe insomnia symptoms. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in symptoms of depression Measured with Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC). CES-DS is a 20-item self-report depression inventory that is widely used in research and has been validated on children and adolescents. Scores range from 0 to 60, in which higher scores suggest a greater presence of depressive symptoms. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in symptoms of depression 2 Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale Child and Parent version (RCADS-C/P). RCADS-C/P is a child and parent self-report measure of anxiety and depression related psychopathology. The 48 items of the RCADS measures five domains of anxiety: generalized anxiety, panic anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive anxiety, as well as symptoms of depression. For depression, values range from 0 to 30, with higher values denoting more depressive symptoms. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in symptoms of generalized anxiety Measured with RCADS-C/P (see above). RCADS-C/P is a child and parent self-report measure of anxiety and depression related psychopathology. The 48 items of the RCADS measures five domains of anxiety: generalized anxiety, panic anxiety, separation anxiety, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive anxiety, as well as symptoms of depression. For generalized anxiety, scores range from 0 to 18, with higher values denoting more severe symptoms of anxiety. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in difficulties in emotion regulation Measured with Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, short version (DERS-16), a self-rated questionnaire assessing difficulties to regulate emotion. DERS-16 can range from 16 to 80, with Higher scores reflect greater impairment. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in intensity of pain A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) will be used to measure intensity of participants' current and past pain.
The scale consists of a line where the ends are defined as extreme limits (0 = no pain; 10 = worst possible pain) of pain experience
Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in daytime functioning Measured with Functional Disability Inventory (FDI), a 15-item self-rated questionnaire to measure level of day-time functioning. Scores range from 0 (no disability) to 60 (severe disability). Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in daytime sleepiness 1 Measured with Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS), a self-report scale consisting of 8 items. Scores range from 0-32, with higher scores indicating more daytime sleepiness. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
Secondary Change in daytime sleepiness 2 Measured with the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS), a 9-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 to 9, with higher numbers denoting more sleepiness. Change from before treatment to after (+6 weeks) and to 6 month after treatment
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