A guided internet-delivered mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for insomnia: study protocol for a randomized controlled study.
Frontiers in psychiatry January 1, 2025 Zixuan Zeng, Fei Liu, Chenyi Zhu et al. 1 citation
Chronic insomnia disorder affects many people and is usually treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I), but about 20% of patients do not respond well. Mindfulness may improve CBT-I outcomes, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has shown effectiveness for insomnia. This protocol describes a planned two-armed, parallel-group randomized controlled trial with 80 Chinese adults who have chronic insomnia. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a therapist-guided internet-based MBCT for insomnia (iMBCT-I) program or a sleep hygiene education program. Assessments occur at baseline, week 8 (end of intervention), and week 20 follow-up, with insomnia severity at week 8 as the primary outcome. This is the first test of therapist-guided iMBCT-I for chronic insomnia.