Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Patient Therapeutic Education on Chronic Insomnia

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Clinical Trial

— ETP-INSOMNIE  

Official title:

Etude Pilote d'évaluation de l'efficacité de l'ETP Sur l'Insomnie Chronique

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05000528
• Other study ID #: NIMAO/2020-2/BA-1
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 30, 2022
• Est. completion date: September 29, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes
• Contact: Beatriz Abril
• Phone: 04.66.68.77.30
• Email: beatriz.abril[@]chu-nimes.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

20 to 30% of the general population suffers from chronic insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the first-line treatment, but unfortunately its implementation is complex. Long waiting times for a consultation / exploration, too short a consultation period, non-reimbursement of specialists and a lack of trained staff make the current care of insomniac patients difficult. Patients are thus treated late, often with heavy drug treatment, dependence on sleeping pills, difficult withdrawal and / or reactive mood disorders. The treatment is therefore limited to advice on sleep hygiene and a restriction of time spent in bed without ultimately intervening in the cognitive domain. Therapeutic education consists of empowering the patient in the management of chronic insomnia through group education workshops. The patient learns the principles of normal sleep, the way in which sleep evolves with aging, the dangers of treatments as well as the rules of sleep hygiene and the behaviors to modify to sleep well. In addition to benefiting from sharing of experience with other patients, therapeutic education makes the care pathway smoother and considerably reduces the long waiting times of the traditional care pathway in consultation.

The study investigators hypothesize that therapeutic education is more effective as a treatment for chronic insomnia than traditional management in individualized consultation (IC). Thus, therapeutic education could constitute an effective alternative to CBT.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 44
• Est. completion date: September 29, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: September 29, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient must have given their free and informed consent

• The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan

• Patient must understand and read French

• Patient with ICSD-3 diagnostic criteria for chronic insomnia: ISI score > 14/28.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with cognitive impairment as assessed by the investigator

• Patient with shift work

• Patients scoring > 10/24 on the Epworth sleepiness scale

• Patient suffering from medical or psychiatric illnesses which may, in the opinion of the investigator, compromise the subject's state of health or ability to participate in the study.

• Patient with chronic alcohol consumption or drug abuse

• Patient unable to express consent.

• Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding patient.

• The subject is participating in a category 1 interventional study, or is in a period of exclusion determined by a previous study

• It is impossible to give the subject informed information

• The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Intervention

Other:
• therapeutic education
In groups of 5-6, patients will have a one-day therapeutic training session comprising 4 workshops: how to create a sleep agenda; normal sleep; sleep hygiene; medical treatments.
• Actimetry
once from inclusion for 2 weeks, second for 2 weeks starting 2 weeks after intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU de NIMES	Nimes

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Improvement in chronic insomnia between groups	Change in Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score (Score between 0 - 28) from inclusion	Day 28
Secondary	Change in total sleeping time between groups	Change in total sleeping time (minutes) from inclusion	Day 28
Secondary	Change in time in bed between groups	Change in time in bed (minutes) from inclusion	Day 28
Secondary	Change in effective sleep	Time between going to bed and falling asleep (minutes). Average time for the 2 weeks following inclusion versus the 2 weeks preceding the study end measured by actimetry bracelet	Day 28
Secondary	Change in sleep latency	% total sleeping time / time in bed. Average time for the 2 weeks following inclusion versus the 2 weeks preceding the study end measured by actimetry bracelet	Day 28
Secondary	Change in intra-sleep time	Change in time between going to bed and falling asleep (minutes) since inclusion, data collected from patient sleep agenda	Day 28
Secondary	Change in anxiety since baseline between groups	State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y). Self-questionnaire assessing anxiety-status (AE) reflecting the current emotional state and anxiety-trait (AT) reflecting the usual emotional state. Total score 20-80.	Day 28
Secondary	Change in depression since baseline between groups	Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The total score is obtained by adding the scores of the 13 items. This score will be between 0 and 63. The higher the score, the more depressed the subject is.	Day 28
Secondary	Change in quality of life since baseline	Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep - 16 (DBAS-16). This self-questionnaire is composed of 16 items: Perceived consequences of insomnia (5 items), Worry/impotence about insomnia (6 items), Sleep expectations (2 items), Medication (3 items). The global score is an average of the scores of each item, ranging from 0 to 10. The higher the score, the more dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep	Day 28
Secondary	Use of hypnotic drugs between groups	Yes/no for each type	Day 28
Secondary	Use of anxiolytic drugs between groups	Yes/no for each type	Day 28
Secondary	Dose of any hypnotic drugs taken between groups		Day 28
Secondary	Dose of any anxiolytic drugs taken between groups		Day 28
Secondary	Completion of therapeutic education sessions of patients in the therapeutic education group	Yes/no	Day 28
Secondary	Length of workshops in the therapeutic education group	Minutes	Day 28
Secondary	Problems encountered during workshops of patients in the therapeutic education group	Descriptive list made by investigator	Day 28
Secondary	Patient-reported reason for refusal to participate in the therapeutic education group	Descriptive list of reasons given by the patient	Day 28