Impact of Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia on Nighttime Urine Production

The BBTI consists of a 45- to 60-minute individual intervention session followed by a 30-minute follow-up session 2 weeks later and 20-minute telephone calls after 1 and 3 weeks. The brief behavioral treatment component will focus on four behaviors that promote sleep through homeostatic, circadian, or association mechanisms. 50 These four interventions are simple to conceptualize and implement, and constitute the core of efficacious multi-modal behavioral treatments for insomnia.

The IC condition is intended to emulate the behavioral treatment information generally to available patients. It includes instructions to review hand out on healthy sleep practices. We will also use patient education videos on insomnia developed locally and widely used in clinical research. The content of these videos overlap substantially with BBTI but without individualized behavioral instructions. Two weeks later, IC participants will receive a 10-minute follow-up telephone call to encourage continued participation. Participants will be referred to the brochures for specific sleep-related questions.