Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial.
Attentional bias toward sleep-related information is believed to play a key role in insomnia. If attentional bias is indeed of importance, changing this bias should then in turn have effects on insomnia complaints. In this double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial we investigated the efficacy...
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| author | Jaap Lancee Samya L Yasiney Ruben S Brendel Marilisa Boffo Patrick J F Clarke Elske Salemink |
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| description | Attentional bias toward sleep-related information is believed to play a key role in insomnia. If attentional bias is indeed of importance, changing this bias should then in turn have effects on insomnia complaints. In this double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial we investigated the efficacy of attentional bias modification training in the treatment of insomnia.We administered baseline, post-test, and one-week follow-up measurements of insomnia severity, sleep-related worry, depression, and anxiety. Participants meeting DSM-5 criteria for insomnia were randomized into an attentional bias training group (n = 67) or a placebo training group (n = 70). Both groups received eight training sessions over the course of two weeks. All participants kept a sleep diary for four consecutive weeks (one week before until one week after the training sessions).There was no additional benefit for the attentional bias training over the placebo training on sleep-related indices/outcome measures.The absence of the effect may be explained by the fact that there was neither attentional bias at baseline nor any reduction in the bias after the training. Either way, this study gives no support for attentional bias modification training as a stand-alone intervention for ameliorating insomnia complaints. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f38d01cea3f4b5993fac8b70ab8480f2022-12-22T03:15:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01124e017453110.1371/journal.pone.0174531Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial.Jaap LanceeSamya L YasineyRuben S BrendelMarilisa BoffoPatrick J F ClarkeElske SaleminkAttentional bias toward sleep-related information is believed to play a key role in insomnia. If attentional bias is indeed of importance, changing this bias should then in turn have effects on insomnia complaints. In this double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial we investigated the efficacy of attentional bias modification training in the treatment of insomnia.We administered baseline, post-test, and one-week follow-up measurements of insomnia severity, sleep-related worry, depression, and anxiety. Participants meeting DSM-5 criteria for insomnia were randomized into an attentional bias training group (n = 67) or a placebo training group (n = 70). Both groups received eight training sessions over the course of two weeks. All participants kept a sleep diary for four consecutive weeks (one week before until one week after the training sessions).There was no additional benefit for the attentional bias training over the placebo training on sleep-related indices/outcome measures.The absence of the effect may be explained by the fact that there was neither attentional bias at baseline nor any reduction in the bias after the training. Either way, this study gives no support for attentional bias modification training as a stand-alone intervention for ameliorating insomnia complaints.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5396867?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Jaap Lancee Samya L Yasiney Ruben S Brendel Marilisa Boffo Patrick J F Clarke Elske Salemink Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. PLoS ONE |
| title | Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. |
| title_full | Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. |
| title_fullStr | Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. |
| title_short | Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. |
| title_sort | attentional bias modification training for insomnia a double blind placebo controlled randomized trial |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5396867?pdf=render |
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