Behavioral sleep medicine
January 1, 2021
Jason G Ellis, Joseph De Koninck, Celyne H Bastien
27 citations
Lucid Dreaming Training for insomnia (LDT-I) may help reduce insomnia severity, anxiety, and depression. In an open-label trial of 48 adults with Insomnia Disorder, participants completed four training modules over two weeks. One month later, insomnia severity, anxious symptomology, and depressive symptomology all showed significant reductions. The effect on insomnia severity was large. The authors caution that these preliminary results require further testing before LDT-I can be established as a non-pharmacological treatment for insomnia.
Behavioral sleep medicine
January 1, 2025
Yue Li, Jiaxing Tang, Gaopeng Chen
8 citations
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials involving 1,052 older adults with poor sleep quality found that meditation-based mind-body interventions (mindfulness, tai chi, yoga, and qigong) significantly improved sleep quality, depression, and anxiety compared to control conditions. No statistically significant effect on stress was observed. The authors conclude that these interventions can improve sleep quality in older adults but call for more evidence.
Behavioral sleep medicine
January 1, 2025
Michelle Carr, Westley Youngren, Martin Seehuus et al.
6 citations
In a representative sample of 1,332 people, lucid dreaming was linked to poor sleep quality, stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. However, when nightmares were accounted for, nightmares alone explained the associations with poor sleep, anxiety, and stress. Both nightmares and the combination of nightmares with lucid dreaming were associated with increased depressive symptoms.
Behavioral sleep medicine
January 1, 2025
Nathaniel R Choukas, Emily C Woodworth, Heena R Manglani et al.
2 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions improve sleep disturbance across healthy and clinical populations. A meta-regression of 40 randomized controlled trials found that these interventions produced significant reductions in sleep disturbance (standardized mean difference = -0.523) and in psychosocial factors such as stress and depression. Reductions in sleep disturbance were linked to reductions in stress and depression, suggesting these psychosocial factors may be important mechanisms. The analysis also indicates that participant and methodological factors play a role. Future research should include additional measures and examine longitudinal associations to identify the active ingredients of mindfulness-based interventions.