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Article: Sleep Training Provides Much-Needed Shut-Eye; Cognitive behavior therapy helps those with chronic insomnia: study.(Report)(Brief article)
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- Consumer Health News (English)
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- June 12, 2009
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FRIDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Cognitive behavioral therapy can benefit people with chronic insomnia, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers studied data from 115 patients, ages 14 to 81, with chronic onset insomnia, sleep maintenance insomnia or both. After undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), which meant learning to identify thoughts and patterns that interfere with sleep, between 50 percent and 60 percent of the patients experienced remission of their primary sleep difficulty.
The 64 patients who completed at least five treatment sessions showed significant improvement on all measures, including sleep efficiency, average ...