Mobile App Intervention for Sleep Problems and Alcohol Use Among Veterans

The intervention combines the Insomnia Coach app with additional brief alcohol intervention to facilitate behavior change for both drinking behavior and insomnia symptoms. Insomnia Coach contains multiple components of CBT-I (e.g., stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, relaxation training, sleep hygiene/psychoeducation, monitoring of sleep via journals). The brief alcohol intervention content added to the CBT-I app is based on CBT skills for moderate drinking, delivered in a motivational enhancement style, and has demonstrated efficacy among young adults and veterans (e.g., correcting perceived norms, use of protective behavioral strategies, challenging expectancies).

Content is based on sleep hygiene practices, but without additional CBT-I content featured in the experimental condition. There is also not brief alcohol intervention content in the control condition.