A Transdiagnostic Sleep Health Intervention for Veterans With PTSD

The Transdiagnostic sleep and circadian intervention (TranS-C), developed by Allison Harvey, Ph.D. and Daniel Buysse, M.D., involves a patient-centered, module-based, flexibly structured approach that tackles numerous sleep disturbances using evidence-based strategies with the goal of improving sleep and related impairments in daytime functioning. It is thus well-suited for tackling sleep disturbances and the associated impairments in social, occupational and overall functioning in veterans with PTSD. The proposed study is a randomized, controlled clinical trial examining the effectiveness of a modified TranS-C intervention for veterans with PTSD. The modified approach, TranS-C for PTSD (TSC-PTSD), elevates the importance of nightmare-focused, apnea-focused, and insomnia-focused modules relative to the standard intervention, incorporates an evidence-based relaxation module, and modifies the nightmare and apnea modules based on strategies used for veterans in the VA healthcare system.

Participants will receive psychoeducation about sleep.