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Chapter 13 - How and When Should I Incorporate Sleep Hygiene and Education?

from Section 4 - Treating Insomnia Using the CBTx Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2024

Colin A. Espie
Colin A. Espie
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
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Summary

Many patients will have received sleep hygiene, or at least be aware of it. Although it is minimally effective as a stand-alone treatment for insomnia, along with sleep education, it is an important part of multicomponent CBT. They both help contextualise other key therapeutics within CBT (e.g., sleep restriction therapy, stimulus control therapy, or the evening wind-down routine). The chapter covers the key lifestyle and bedroom factors that comprise sleep hygiene, and how to communicate these to patients. Next, this chapter introduces the ‘5 principles’ of good sleep health, which describe the importance of (1) valuing, (2) prioritising, (3) personalising, (4) trusting, and (5) protecting sleep as a framework for supporting good sleep.

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sleep hygienesleep educationsleep health5 principles
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The Clinician's Guide to Cognitive and Behavioural Therapeutics (CBTx) for Insomnia
A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
 , pp. 288 - 306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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