Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia: Analysis of Components, Mediators and Moderators

Cognitive Therapy involves challenging negative automatic thoughts about sleep and the use of behavioral experiments to challenge and test five cognitive processes (i.e., worry, dysfunctional thoughts, monitoring, safety behaviours, misperception) proposed to perpetuate insomnia.

Behavior Therapy involves the use of stimulus control and sleep restriction in order to reverse maladaptive sleep habits (time in bed, napping, bedtime variability, rise time variability) proposed to maintain insomnia. It also involves the practice of sleep hygiene principles.

The waitlist serves as a passive control which will receive the same measures administered to the cognitive and behaviour therapy groups.