Tailored Treatment of Insomnia in Social and Health Care Sector Shift Workers in Occupational Health Care

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the usefulness of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) tailored to shift workers in the social and health care sector. The study will also learn about the shift workers' experiences of the acceptability and feasibility of CBT-I and investigate which features of shift work and individual characteristics promote or interfere with the effectiveness of the tailored CBT-I.

The main question the study aims to answer is:

• Does CBT-I tailored to shift workers in the social and health care sector improve perceived insomnia severity, insomnia symptoms, mental health and quality of life?

Researchers will compare CBT-I to a control intervention (short sleep hygiene counselling) to see if CBT-I works to treat insomnia in shift workers.

Participants will:

* Participate in the research intervention (CBT-I tailored to the shift work context; six individual sessions) or the control intervention (sleep hygiene counselling; one individual session)
* Complete the measures (sleep diary, actigraphy and questionnaires) at baseline, after the end of treatment (12 weeks after the first session) and at 6 months after the end of treatment.

Conditions

• Insomnia Chronic
• Shift Work Sleep Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) includes behavioral methods, cognitive methods, and sleep hygiene counselling.

BEHAVIORAL

Sleep hygiene counselling

Sleep hygiene counselling includes common instructions to improve sleep.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Terveystalo Oyj

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Joint Authority HUS

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Finnish Work Environment Fund

  collaborator OTHER

• The Wellbeing Services County of South Ostrobotnia and TT Botnia Oy

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-02-17

Primary Completion

2027-03-15

Completion

2027-03-31

Countries

• Finland

Study Locations