Many adults suffer from insomnia disorder, struggling to fall asleep, stay asleep, or with early morning awakenings. Hyperarousal is an important predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factor to insomnia. Anxiety, depression and ADHD are common comorbid disorders, with shared cognitive, behavioral, genetic, and neurological features. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold-standard treatment, more effective and economical than pharmacological treatments, though not suitable or available for everyone. Unfortunately, sleeping pills are still more common than CBT-I, despite known risks. One potential treatment avenue is consumer sleep technology, including interventional sleep robots. This thesis aimed to assess the safety, acceptability, effects, and experiences of a commercial sleep robot for insomnia in adults. Overall, the thesis does not strongly support the sleep robot as an effective insomnia treatment. The intervention might not have addressed important precipitating factors of the participants’ insomnia, and the robot’s impact on stress reactivity and other potentially important factors remain uncertain. Until more robust research studies are conducted, the current sleep robot intervention should not be considered an evidence-based treatment for adults with insomnia. ; Many adults suffer from insomnia disorder, which entails a difficulty initiating sleep and maintaining sleep, or undesired early morning awakenings coupled with trouble going back to sleep. Hyperarousal is an important causal and maintaining factor in insomnia. Furthermore, comorbid conditions such as anxiety, depression, and ADHD are common. The first line treatment of insomnia is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has been found to be more effective and economical than pharmaceuticals, albeit not suitable or available for all. Sleeping pills are still the most common treatments of insomnia, which is unfortunate due to established risks. Thus, research on credible treatment options is warranted. One potential ...
Lean, mean sleep machine? : Effects and experiences of a sleep robot intervention for adults with insomnia
2024-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
ADHD , anxiety , depression , hyperarousal , insomnia , robot , sleep , Applied Psychology , Tillämpad psykologi
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