InsomniaNCT04703283
Self-help Lifestyle Medicine for Insomnia
A study testing Lifestyle Medicine in people with Insomnia, run by Chinese University of Hong Kong at 1 site in Hong Kong.
Trial summary
This study will examine the effects of a self-help smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention (LM) for alleviating insomnia symptoms in a Chinese population. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Insomnia
- What is being tested?
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 70 participants
- Where
- 1 siteHong Kong
- Study dates
- Mar 2021to Oct 2021
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Hong Kong residents
- Aged ≥ 18 years
- Have an Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score ≥10, indicating at least sub threshold level of insomnia symptoms are present
- Able to read Chinese and type in Chinese or English
- Have an Internet-enabled mobile device (iOS or Android operating system)
- Are willing to provide informed consent and comply with the trial protocol
Who cannot join
- Current involvement in psychotherapy or unstable medication for sleep, depression, and/or anxiety
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) Item 9 score of at least 2 indicating a current moderate suicidal risk that requires active crisis management (referral information to professional services will be provided to those with serious suicidal risk)
- Are having unsafe conditions and are not recommended for exercise or a change in diet by physicians
- Having major psychiatric, medical, or neurocognitive disorders that make participation infeasible or interfere with the adherence to the lifestyle modification
- Other untreated sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), and restless leg syndrome (RLS)/periodic leg movement disorder (PLMD) based on the cut-off scores (≥ 7 on narcolepsy; ≥ 15 on OSA; ≥ 7 on RLS/PLMD) of individual sections in SLEEP-50
- Shift work, pregnancy, work, family, or other commitments that interfere with regular night-time sleep patterns
- Hospitalization
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Effect of a Self-help Smartphone-based Lifestyle Intervention in Reducing Insomnia Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
This study will examine the effects of a self-help smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention (LM) for alleviating insomnia symptoms in a Chinese population. Since a range of lifestyle factors are related to the pathogenesis and progression of insomnia, modifying different lifestyle factors simultaneously, such as diet, exercise, stress, and sleep which are empirically supported by previous reviews, may be effective to reduce insomnia symptoms (Reid et al., 2010; Vedaa et al., 2016). Traditional Chinese nutritional values will be integrated into the smartphone application to increase the acceptability towards the intervention. A prevalence study suggested that self-help interventions are preferred due to the potential stigmatization related to mental health interventions and the high cost of mental health services in Hong Kong (Lee, Tsang, \& Kwok, 2007). Nonetheless, to date, only limited self-help interventions that target lifestyle medicine for sleep-related problems are available. Through this study, we aimed to promote evidence-based patient care and improve help-seeking behaviors and access to evidence-based lifestyle interventions for insomnia.
Read the detailed description
This study will be a randomized controlled trial on the effects of a self-help smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention for reducing insomnia symptoms in the Chinese population. Prior to all study procedures, eligible participants will be required to complete an online informed consent (with telephone support). Assuming an alpha error of 5%, a beta error rate of 20%, and a between-group effect size of 0.77 for the Insomnia Severity Scale (Ip et al., 2020), the final sample is 28 for both groups. With an estimation of 20% withdrawal, 70 eligible participants will be randomly assigned to either the smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention (LM group) or the waitlist control group (WL group) in a ratio of 1:1.
- Conditions
- Insomnia
- Being tested
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Keywords
- Insomnia, Lifestyle Medicine, Self-help
- Medical subject headings
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Lifestyle MedicineBehavioural
Lifestyle intervention with components including exercise, diet, stress management, and sleep management
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle Medicine Group | Experimental | Lifestyle intervention with components including exercise, diet, stress management, and sleep management Receives: Behavioral: Lifestyle Medicine |
| Waitlist Control Group | No intervention | Participants in the waitlist control group will receive the intervention after the immediate post-treatment assessment |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)
ISI is a 7-item scale designed to evaluate perceived insomnia severity. Ratings on the 5-point Likert scale are obtained on the perceived severity of sleep-onset, sleep-maintenance, early morning awakening problems, satisfaction with current sleep pattern, interference with daily functioning, noticeably of impairment attributed to the sleep problem, and level of distress caused by the sleep problem.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Secondary outcomes (8)
Change in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
The HADS, a self-reporting questionnaire used for assessing the level of depressive and anxiety symptoms over the past week on a 4-point scale. The HADS consists of two parts: an anxiety subscale (HADS-A) and a depression subscale (HADS-D), both of which have seven items.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Short Form (Six-Dimension) Health Survey (SF-6D)
SF-6D is a preference-based single index measure of health. A six-digit number represents each SF-6D health state, each digit denotes the level of one of six SF-6D dimensions: physical functioning, role limitation, social functioning, bodily pain, mental health, and vitality.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP II)
The 52-item HPLPII is composed of a total scale and six subscales to measure behaviors in the theorized dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle: spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, nutrition, physical activity, health responsibility, and stress management.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS)
SDS is a brief, 5-item self-report tool that assesses functional impairment in work/school, social life, and family life.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Credibility-Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ)
The 6-item CEQ yielded ratings of treatment credibility, acceptability/satisfaction, and expectations for success.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)
Participants' subjective sleep disturbance over the past month will be assessed using PSQI. PSQI consists of 19 self-rating items that can be categorized into seven components, including subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. Each component is scored on a 4-point Likert scale (0-3). The sum of the seven components results in a global score of 21. A high score indicates worse sleep quality.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Consensus Sleep Diary (CSD-M)
The standardized sleep diary records sleep time, wake time, perceived sleeping quality, use of hypnotics, etc. on a daily basis. Variables derived from the sleep diary include sleep onset latency (SOL), wake after sleep onset (WASO), total wake time (TWT), total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE), etc.
Measured: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Self-developed survey
The self-developed survey will collect information including demographic information (e.g., age, gender, level of education, working industry, relationship status, and location of residence), substance use, body mass index (BMI), rest-activity pattern, and social rhythms, etc.
Measured: Baseline
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted11 Jan 2021
- Study startMar 2021 (estimated)
- Primary completionAug 2021 (estimated)
- Study completionOct 2021 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for InsomniaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Chinese University of Hong KongThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 70 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Fiona YY Ho, Chinese University of Hong Kong
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04703283
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- PSY012
- Status last verified
- Jan 2021
- First submitted
- 7 Jan 2021
- Last updated
- 11 Jan 2021
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 11 Jan 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Effect of a Self-help Smartphone-based Lifestyle Intervention in Reducing Insomnia Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04703283
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PSY012
- Conditions
- Insomnia
- Keywords
- Insomnia, Lifestyle Medicine, Self-help
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 70 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong KongUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Mar 2021 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- Aug 2021 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Oct 2021 (estimated)
- First posted
- 11 Jan 2021 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This study will examine the effects of a self-help smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention (LM) for alleviating insomnia symptoms in a Chinese population. Since a range of lifestyle factors are related to the pathogenesis and progression of insomnia, modifying different lifestyle factors simultaneously, such as diet, exercise, stress, and sleep which are empirically supported by previous reviews, may be effective to reduce insomnia symptoms (Reid et al., 2010; Vedaa et al., 2016). Traditional Chinese nutritional values will be integrated into the smartphone application to increase the acceptability towards the intervention. A prevalence study suggested that self-help interventions are preferred due to the potential stigmatization related to mental health interventions and the high cost of mental health services in Hong Kong (Lee, Tsang, \& Kwok, 2007). Nonetheless, to date, only limited self-help interventions that target lifestyle medicine for sleep-related problems are available. Through this study, we aimed to promote evidence-based patient care and improve help-seeking behaviors and access to evidence-based lifestyle interventions for insomnia.
Detailed description
This study will be a randomized controlled trial on the effects of a self-help smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention for reducing insomnia symptoms in the Chinese population. Prior to all study procedures, eligible participants will be required to complete an online informed consent (with telephone support). Assuming an alpha error of 5%, a beta error rate of 20%, and a between-group effect size of 0.77 for the Insomnia Severity Scale (Ip et al., 2020), the final sample is 28 for both groups. With an estimation of 20% withdrawal, 70 eligible participants will be randomly assigned to either the smartphone-based multi-component lifestyle medicine intervention (LM group) or the waitlist control group (WL group) in a ratio of 1:1.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle Medicine Group | Experimental | Behavioral: Lifestyle MedicineLifestyle intervention with components including exercise, diet, stress management, and sleep management |
| Waitlist Control Group | No intervention | –Participants in the waitlist control group will receive the intervention after the immediate post-treatment assessment |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (6 listed)
- Hong Kong residents
- Aged ≥ 18 years
- Have an Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score ≥10, indicating at least sub threshold level of insomnia symptoms are present
- Able to read Chinese and type in Chinese or English
- Have an Internet-enabled mobile device (iOS or Android operating system)
Key exclusion criteria (7 listed)
- Current involvement in psychotherapy or unstable medication for sleep, depression, and/or anxiety
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) Item 9 score of at least 2 indicating a current moderate suicidal risk that requires active crisis management (referral information to professional services will be provided to those with serious suicidal risk)
- Are having unsafe conditions and are not recommended for exercise or a change in diet by physicians
- Having major psychiatric, medical, or neurocognitive disorders that make participation infeasible or interfere with the adherence to the lifestyle modification
- Other untreated sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), and restless leg syndrome (RLS)/periodic leg movement disorder (PLMD) based on the cut-off scores (≥ 7 on narcolepsy; ≥ 15 on OSA; ≥ 7 on RLS/PLMD) of individual sections in SLEEP-50
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle MedicineLifestyle intervention with components including exercise, diet, stress management, and sleep management | Behavioural | Lifestyle Medicine Group |
Primary outcome
Change in the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
ISI is a 7-item scale designed to evaluate perceived insomnia severity. Ratings on the 5-point Likert scale are obtained on the perceived severity of sleep-onset, sleep-maintenance, early morning awakening problems, satisfaction with current sleep pattern, interference with daily functioning, noticeably of impairment attributed to the sleep problem, and level of distress caused by the sleep problem.
8 secondary outcomes
Change in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Short Form (Six-Dimension) Health Survey (SF-6D)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP II)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Credibility-Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Change in the Consensus Sleep Diary (CSD-M)
Time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention
Self-developed survey
Time frame: Baseline
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 11 Jan 2021.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Lifestyle Medicine in people with Insomnia, run by Chinese University of Hong Kong at 1 site in Hong Kong.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Jan 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Hong Kong. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Vincent Wing-Hei Wong (+852 3943 6575, vincentwongwh@link.cuhk.edu.hk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) (time frame: Baseline, immediately post-intervention, and 1-month post-intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Jan 2021.