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"When Does Sleep Become the Enemy?" Jason Ellis (02.03.2021)

February 08, 2021

"When Does Sleep Become the Enemy?" Jason Ellis (02.03.2021)

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  • 00:23OK, hello everyone. I'm Bri
  • 00:24and minor I'm subbing in today
  • 00:27for Lauren Tobias,
  • 00:28who will be working in the ICU.
  • 00:31Thank you to her for her service
  • 00:33and I'd like to welcome you
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  • 01:42So now I will move on to
  • 01:44introduce today's speaker,
  • 01:46doctor Jason Ellis,
  • 01:47who is hailing all the way from the United
  • 01:51Kingdom to join us for our afternoon.
  • 01:53His early evening.
  • 01:55So doctor Ellis.
  • 01:57Has done all of his training
  • 02:00in the United Kingdom,
  • 02:01first starting with a bachelors degree
  • 02:04in psychology and clearly had an
  • 02:06interest in insomnia from the beginning.
  • 02:08He did his dissertation,
  • 02:10which was entitled is chronic
  • 02:12insomnia a resource loss spiral?
  • 02:14He went on to do his Masters work
  • 02:16at the University of Surry where
  • 02:18he studied the role of rumination
  • 02:21and thought control and sleep
  • 02:23disturbance and he got a PhD
  • 02:26also at the University of Surry.
  • 02:28Looking at the cognitive
  • 02:30consolidation model of insomnia,
  • 02:32an examination of the predictors and
  • 02:34consequences of late life insomnia.
  • 02:37And finally,
  • 02:38in 2014 he was recognized by the
  • 02:40European Sleep Research Society as an
  • 02:43expert in behavioral Sleep Medicine.
  • 02:45He now serves as a professor of
  • 02:48sleep science and the director of
  • 02:50the Sleep Research Laboratory at
  • 02:53Northumbria University in Newcastle.
  • 02:55He has editorial appointments
  • 02:57for journals of Behavioral Sleep
  • 02:59Medicine and sleep health.
  • 03:00He serves on committees for
  • 03:02the Sleep Research Society and
  • 03:04the British Sleep Society.
  • 03:06He has many different interests
  • 03:08that have been sort of that I was,
  • 03:11you know,
  • 03:12looking through in his very long CV,
  • 03:15and so I just wanted to to highlight
  • 03:18a couple here that I thought were,
  • 03:21you know, recent and interesting.
  • 03:22He is looking at optimizing sensory
  • 03:25information for sleep in toddlers.
  • 03:27The effects of a multi ingredient
  • 03:30nighttime tea on sleep quality well
  • 03:32being an markers of immune function.
  • 03:35He is looking at development of
  • 03:37of a fatigue management program
  • 03:39for training health care personnel
  • 03:41following shift work.
  • 03:43Behavioral treatment for insomnia
  • 03:44in adults with autism and he has
  • 03:47interesting projects and consulting
  • 03:49looking at determining the most
  • 03:51super riffic reason,
  • 03:52anthems and developing evidence
  • 03:54based sleep hygiene guidelines.
  • 03:56He has over 50 peer reviewed publications,
  • 03:58multiple book chapters. Anna book.
  • 04:01Called the one week Insomnia cure
  • 04:03learned to solve your sleep problems
  • 04:05and he has been invited as a keynote
  • 04:07speaker for multiple professional
  • 04:09societies and universities.
  • 04:11An multiple public engagement
  • 04:12talks and in fact Doctor Tobias,
  • 04:14who couldn't be here today, saw him,
  • 04:17gave a similar talk to this when
  • 04:19he proposes to talk to us today
  • 04:21about found him very engaging and
  • 04:24so he very kindly accepted the
  • 04:26invitation to speak with us today.
  • 04:30So without further ado,
  • 04:31thank you Doctor Ellis and we're
  • 04:33looking forward to your talk.
  • 04:35Read that if you want to sit on
  • 04:38my promotions board at any point,
  • 04:40please feel free.
  • 04:41That's a beautiful introduction.
  • 04:43Thank you to Doctor Miller.
  • 04:44Minor for that introduction. Of course,
  • 04:47Dr Tobias for the invitation and Debbie,
  • 04:49of course for making sure that
  • 04:52I'm correct and appropriate.
  • 04:53OK, So what are we going to talk about today?
  • 04:57We're going to talk really
  • 04:59about acute insomnia.
  • 05:00So when does sleep actually become the enemy,
  • 05:03and what can we do about it?
  • 05:07Before we continue, I'm going to
  • 05:09have to use that just disclosure.
  • 05:12There's no commercial support for
  • 05:13the grand rounds an any conflicts of
  • 05:16interest have already been resolved,
  • 05:18and more than happy to discuss that
  • 05:21if anyone wishes to do so, alright.
  • 05:25Now I always like to start the talk
  • 05:28at the very end and the reason that
  • 05:31I like to start a talk at the very
  • 05:34end is in case people fall asleep.
  • 05:37So let's start with cognitive
  • 05:39behavioral therapy for insomnia, CBT.
  • 05:41I what do we know about CBT?
  • 05:43It's been around for about 30 years now
  • 05:45and we know it demonstrates very good
  • 05:48efficacy and comparative effectiveness
  • 05:50when compared directly to fund therapy.
  • 05:52It's durable, we know that studies where.
  • 05:55CPT is being employed.
  • 05:57We can see at least five to 10
  • 06:00years in terms of treatment gains.
  • 06:03Wilson Heights complex cases.
  • 06:05It's just as effective as it is
  • 06:07with the pure cases and anyone.
  • 06:09Whoever finds that pure case
  • 06:11of insomnia do let me know.
  • 06:13I have been looking for them for 20 years.
  • 06:17And finally.
  • 06:18It confers benefits EBT.
  • 06:21I confers benefits above and
  • 06:23beyond sleep itself.
  • 06:24We see reductions in anxiety,
  • 06:26depression,
  • 06:27paying and so it's a gift that
  • 06:30keeps on giving so that really
  • 06:32leads us to the point of this is
  • 06:36the evidence base that we've got.
  • 06:39So we've got at least 20 meter analysis
  • 06:42now which demonstrate that CBT eye works.
  • 06:45It's effective and it confers
  • 06:47these additional benefits.
  • 06:49So really, we're done.
  • 06:50That's the end of the talk, sorry.
  • 06:54Give everyone CBT I fantastic.
  • 06:57We've beaten the Beast of Insomnia.
  • 07:01There are a couple of issues however,
  • 07:04that we have to be mindful
  • 07:06of in terms of CBT I.
  • 07:08There still very few trained
  • 07:10clinicians and so that is a problem
  • 07:13in terms of widespread dissemination.
  • 07:15It's also prone to quite
  • 07:17high levels of attrition.
  • 07:18We see up to 50% of people who
  • 07:21will enroll into a CBT program,
  • 07:23either clinically or in terms of research,
  • 07:26and then drop out.
  • 07:28A lot of clinicians and a lot of patience,
  • 07:32C CBT is quite labor intensive
  • 07:34and time intensive,
  • 07:35and therefore that prevents
  • 07:37them from engaging fully.
  • 07:40Even when we get people into doing CBT,
  • 07:43I what we see is that we get about a 70
  • 07:47or 80% therapeutic response from CBT.
  • 07:49I but only about 50 to 60% of those
  • 07:53responders go on to achieve a full remission.
  • 07:56So even though we've beaten
  • 07:58the Beast of Insomnia,
  • 07:59there's still a few things
  • 08:02that we need to clear up.
  • 08:04How we managed to try to address
  • 08:07some of these issues with CBT in
  • 08:09terms of very few trained clinicians,
  • 08:12we offer in Group therapy which
  • 08:14certainly reduces our waiting times
  • 08:17and we can now afford to do it online,
  • 08:19so there's lots of online programs,
  • 08:22so that's one way in which we've tried to
  • 08:25address the problem of very few clinicians.
  • 08:28What about that levels of
  • 08:31attrition and nonadherence?
  • 08:32We've been looking more
  • 08:34recently adjuvant therapy,
  • 08:35so can we combine CBT to increase the
  • 08:38overall efficacy and effectiveness
  • 08:40by incorporating a stimulant?
  • 08:42For example,
  • 08:43to keep people awake during the day?
  • 08:46What about with a hypnotic to keep
  • 08:49them asleep when you are affording
  • 08:52them that opportunity to get into bed?
  • 08:55Unfortunately,
  • 08:56in both cases the results really
  • 08:58didn't add much in terms of
  • 09:00increasing efficacy or effectiveness.
  • 09:02More recently,
  • 09:03researchers these crazy researchers
  • 09:04from England include partners.
  • 09:06What about including a partner in CBT?
  • 09:08And that's because we can see when
  • 09:11we've looked at it that partners can
  • 09:14be quite a strong barrier to CBT.
  • 09:17I if we think about some of the things
  • 09:20that we do when we're doing CBT,
  • 09:23I we ask people to do.
  • 09:26Things that really don't make
  • 09:28that much sense to them in terms
  • 09:30of managing their sleep,
  • 09:32and that can create some
  • 09:34difficulties in dyads,
  • 09:35whereby if you actually help manage that,
  • 09:38it does increase efficacy somewhat.
  • 09:41And finally,
  • 09:41the most crazy thing at all
  • 09:43is lucid dreaming training.
  • 09:45If we include lucid dreaming training
  • 09:47on top of CBT I does it impact on both,
  • 09:50and that's a trial that we're
  • 09:52doing at the moment,
  • 09:53which is please feel free to ask me
  • 09:56anything about how I managed to get
  • 09:58myself hooked up into a study on.
  • 10:00Lucid dreaming.
  • 10:03Alright,
  • 10:03So what about this issue of it being
  • 10:06perceived and time and labor intensive?
  • 10:09Well,
  • 10:09the question really is how low can
  • 10:12you go for a therapeutic effect and
  • 10:14we can see that there are quite a
  • 10:18few studies on the brief interventions
  • 10:20for people with chronic insomnia
  • 10:22by Jack Edinger and Anne Germain.
  • 10:24When we look at the average
  • 10:27treatment effect sizes,
  • 10:28however,
  • 10:28there moderate to large and
  • 10:30they're good and we can see that.
  • 10:33We can incorporate brief interventions for
  • 10:35insomnia with a certain degree of efficacy,
  • 10:38so that's another way to address the issue.
  • 10:41The challenge with that, however,
  • 10:43as with the other issues,
  • 10:45is that they're not standardized practice,
  • 10:47and so where some people might
  • 10:49want to do group,
  • 10:51other people may not want
  • 10:53to engage with that.
  • 10:54Other people don't want brief
  • 10:56therapies for chronic insomnia,
  • 10:57so maybe we need to think about
  • 11:00an alternative perspective.
  • 11:01So we're going to go to.
  • 11:04Plan B.
  • 11:05What's the Plan B will to
  • 11:07start looking at what we might
  • 11:10think of in terms of a Plan B.
  • 11:13Let's look at how insomnia is diagnosed.
  • 11:15We've got the DSM 5 wonderful thing.
  • 11:18It starts to talk about no issues
  • 11:20between primary and secondary insomnia.
  • 11:22It's one of its greatest benefits in my mind.
  • 11:26When we start looking down at the
  • 11:28symptom profile, one of the things that
  • 11:30jumped out was the problem has been
  • 11:33evident for at least three months.
  • 11:35In order for it to be diagnosis chronic,
  • 11:37it's gotta be present for three months now.
  • 11:40It's always been a question of mine is
  • 11:42to how do we determine three months?
  • 11:45Because in past iterations of all of
  • 11:47the masallah, geez, we've gone right
  • 11:49the way through from one month,
  • 11:51right way through to six months.
  • 11:53So how did we choose three months?
  • 11:55How do we know?
  • 11:56Insomnia is insomnia.
  • 11:58At three months, the easy answer is we don't.
  • 12:02It seems that that's quite
  • 12:04an arbitrary cutting point.
  • 12:08When the DSM five was being.
  • 12:11Conceptualize one of the other things
  • 12:14that they put out in one of their
  • 12:17position statements was this statement
  • 12:18saying although a minimal duration of
  • 12:21three months is required, insomnia of
  • 12:23shorter duration may still
  • 12:25need clinical attention.
  • 12:26So this starts to give us a
  • 12:29very new opportunity out Plan B,
  • 12:32which is why don't we address asamia
  • 12:35when it's during its acute phase,
  • 12:37when it's not reached its chronic phase.
  • 12:41Now, why would that be important?
  • 12:44What are the benefits of this?
  • 12:46And believe me,
  • 12:47I used to have about 6 slides justifying
  • 12:49why I think acute insomnia is important,
  • 12:53and then a very dear friend and
  • 12:55colleague of mine from Upenn,
  • 12:57Michael Careless, said to me look decent.
  • 13:01An ounce of early intervention with acute
  • 13:04insomnia may be worth a pound of CBT I,
  • 13:07in the context of chronic insomnia.
  • 13:10In essence, what we're saying here
  • 13:12is if we can address it early,
  • 13:15we could probably do a lighter touch,
  • 13:18because there's going to be less
  • 13:20conditioned arousal at this point,
  • 13:22and less self schemata around
  • 13:25having the identity of insomnia.
  • 13:28We can also help in terms of reducing
  • 13:30all of those direct and indirect costs
  • 13:33associated with chronic insomnia.
  • 13:34One of those, of course being.
  • 13:37Depression.
  • 13:39So really,
  • 13:40we've got a good rationale
  • 13:43for intervening early.
  • 13:46In terms of not only helping people,
  • 13:48but also in terms of impacting on costs,
  • 13:52and we could do it lighter and
  • 13:54easier than a full CBT eye protocol.
  • 14:02The problem remains, however,
  • 14:04is to what is acute insomnia.
  • 14:07Believe it or not,
  • 14:08considering the pattern ACOLOGY switch
  • 14:11have covered insomnia since the 70s.
  • 14:13Acute insomnia has always been
  • 14:16defined on the basis of exclusion.
  • 14:18In other words,
  • 14:20in most instances it's assumed that
  • 14:23insomnia that meets all of the criteria.
  • 14:26For insomnia,
  • 14:27except duration is classified as acute.
  • 14:31Now that's a problem,
  • 14:34because we don't really know enough about it,
  • 14:37and it's never really been studied.
  • 14:39In order for us to see whether it might
  • 14:42actually be different and warrant a
  • 14:45different form of treatment strategy,
  • 14:47it might respond better to
  • 14:49a stress based protocol.
  • 14:51So in 2012,
  • 14:52one of the first things that we
  • 14:55did was created our own definition.
  • 14:57Our own working definition of acute insomnia.
  • 15:01Anyone who's familiar with the work of Art,
  • 15:05Spielman, will understand his 3P model
  • 15:08that insomnia is made up of predisposing,
  • 15:11precipitating,
  • 15:12and perpetuating factors.
  • 15:14Now, one of the things that Spielman
  • 15:17said in his model, of course,
  • 15:19is that acute insomnia starts
  • 15:21because of a precipitating event,
  • 15:23a life event that he's talking about,
  • 15:26something like a divorce,
  • 15:27or he's talking about a bereavement,
  • 15:29something that is a major
  • 15:32impact on somebody's life.
  • 15:34One of the first things that we
  • 15:37felt was that actually there are
  • 15:40going to be other circumstances
  • 15:42which will lead somebody over that
  • 15:44threshold of insomnia into having
  • 15:47that diagnosis of acute insomnia.
  • 15:50So the main differentiation that
  • 15:52we've had from the DSM and the ICS D
  • 15:55is really we've taken account of the
  • 15:57fact that not only might there be,
  • 16:00as you can see on the left hand side,
  • 16:04significant life event that takes
  • 16:05somebody over a threshold of insomnia.
  • 16:08But it could also be an accumulation
  • 16:10of daily hassles, for example,
  • 16:12and I think that many of us have
  • 16:14experienced this and we're seeing a
  • 16:16lot of this at the moment due to the
  • 16:19circumstances that we're living in is
  • 16:21that it's not one thing that people
  • 16:23pinpoint that is kicked off their insomnia,
  • 16:26but in accumulation of
  • 16:28things that have built up.
  • 16:30The third group that we talk about in
  • 16:32terms of the precipitants for insomnia.
  • 16:35Somebody who's chronically stressed if
  • 16:37we've got somebody who's caregiving,
  • 16:39for example.
  • 16:40That's going to keep them
  • 16:42quite close to that threshold.
  • 16:44That stress threshold that
  • 16:46goes over into insomnia.
  • 16:47And it might just take one or two things
  • 16:51that push them over the edge into insomnia.
  • 16:54So we've rejected the idea that it
  • 16:57has to be a significant life event.
  • 17:00But they also could be daily
  • 17:03hassles that have accumulated
  • 17:04or indeed a chronic stressor.
  • 17:07Beyond that,
  • 17:08we generally keeping within the
  • 17:10framework of the DSM 5 in that it's
  • 17:13a problem of getting off to sleep,
  • 17:15staying asleep,
  • 17:16waking too early in the morning
  • 17:19despite adequate opportunity.
  • 17:21Three nights a week.
  • 17:22And causing significant daytime
  • 17:25impairment or distress.
  • 17:26But what we're talking about here is period.
  • 17:30Generally between two weeks,
  • 17:32three months.
  • 17:36OK, so we've now got a working
  • 17:39definition for acute insomnia.
  • 17:41That's fantastic. Yay me.
  • 17:44Do we need to do after that?
  • 17:47Well, you know.
  • 17:48As with anything that we're dealing
  • 17:50with in terms of looking for
  • 17:53resource is for healthcare resources,
  • 17:55we need to know what the prevalence is.
  • 17:58We need to know the Epidemiology
  • 18:00of acute insomnia becausw,
  • 18:01is it worth plowing money into this?
  • 18:04If indeed it doesn't exist
  • 18:06and it's not very problematic.
  • 18:08So we conducted the first study
  • 18:10looking at the Epidemiology of
  • 18:12acute insomnia in both the US and.
  • 18:15Can you take?
  • 18:17What we found from that is that the
  • 18:20point prevalence of acute insomnia
  • 18:23is somewhere between 8 and 9%.
  • 18:25So 8 or 9% of the population
  • 18:28are suffering from the acute
  • 18:30insomnia at any given time point.
  • 18:33What about its incidence, however?
  • 18:36When we start to talk about incidents,
  • 18:39we see quite a high incidence rate.
  • 18:41We're looking at an annual incidence
  • 18:44rate of between 31 to 36%,
  • 18:46so almost a third of the population will
  • 18:50develop acute insomnia in a given year.
  • 18:53But for a large majority of those,
  • 18:56they will naturally rumic as opposed to
  • 18:59going on to develop chronic insomnia,
  • 19:02just as a sideline.
  • 19:04You know what we're dealing with
  • 19:06at the moment in terms of covert,
  • 19:09what we're seeing in terms of acute
  • 19:11insomnia is increasing by about 40%,
  • 19:13so we're going to see over this year
  • 19:16and the next year, acute insomnia.
  • 19:19Prevalence rates,
  • 19:20probably in their 20s or even 30s.
  • 19:23Lot of people suffering from acute
  • 19:25insomnia at the moment there's a lot
  • 19:28of uncertainty, anxiety and worry.
  • 19:30Alright,
  • 19:30so now we've got a definition fantastic,
  • 19:33and that made me famous.
  • 19:36Now we've got the prevalence and incidents,
  • 19:38so now we've got some good data behind.
  • 19:42How popular and common it is and
  • 19:45whether we need to address it or not.
  • 19:49So now we really need to know
  • 19:51more about what it looks like.
  • 19:53What does acute insomnia actually look like?
  • 19:56Going back to the apea and
  • 19:58what they suggested in 2012.
  • 20:00Well,
  • 20:01they suggested that this situational or
  • 20:03acute insomnia is often associated with
  • 20:06life events or changes in sleep schedules,
  • 20:09so that's the first part we want to check.
  • 20:12Does this trigger actually need
  • 20:14to occur in order for somebody
  • 20:17to develop acute insomnia?
  • 20:18Starting now to look more into
  • 20:21the analytic Epidemiology of it?
  • 20:25So what if we got in terms
  • 20:28of previous research?
  • 20:30There's only actually one significant paper
  • 20:32on precipitating factors in insomnia,
  • 20:34and this is my cell am Bastian.
  • 20:38University level from 2004.
  • 20:40An what Celine did is she got a group
  • 20:44of patients that were coming through
  • 20:47to clinic for treatment 323 and she
  • 20:50asked them whether they could recall
  • 20:53the precipitant event that kicked off
  • 20:56and triggered their insomnia and what
  • 20:59she found was 78.3% of them said yes
  • 21:03they can recall a specific event.
  • 21:06Now there are two main challenges
  • 21:08with Celine's.
  • 21:09Work here.
  • 21:10The first is that the mean length that
  • 21:13people had insomnia when they went
  • 21:15into the clinic was over 10 years.
  • 21:17So there's gonna be some memory
  • 21:20biases around that.
  • 21:21That we need to be mindful of.
  • 21:23The other issue, of course,
  • 21:25is that she didn't account for
  • 21:27a previous history of insomnia,
  • 21:30and one of the things that we do
  • 21:32know is that a previous episode of
  • 21:35Insomnia is a significant risk factor
  • 21:38for the development of insomnia,
  • 21:40and so we might want to look at
  • 21:43whether there are differences
  • 21:44in precipitating events based on
  • 21:46whether it's your first ever episode,
  • 21:49or indeed whether it is a recurrent episode.
  • 21:52So small scale study.
  • 21:54We've asked people, in essence.
  • 21:58Um,
  • 21:59if there in the first three months
  • 22:01of a recurrent episode,
  • 22:03so they're still in acute insomnia,
  • 22:05but they're going through a
  • 22:07recurrent episode, not their first.
  • 22:09What happens if you ask people?
  • 22:12Can they identify a precipitant an it's
  • 22:15interesting in the sense that 93% of people,
  • 22:18even though there are increased risk for
  • 22:21insomnia because they've had it in the past.
  • 22:24They can still identify a precipitants
  • 22:26or precipitant is needed for.
  • 22:28Even a recurrent episode.
  • 22:32What about if you ask people if
  • 22:34it's their first ever episode?
  • 22:37So you're asking people within the
  • 22:391st three months of their first
  • 22:41ever episode of Acute Insomnia?
  • 22:43Surprise, surprise.
  • 22:45100% everyone interviewed could
  • 22:47identify specific precipitants they may
  • 22:49have been accumulations of daily hassles.
  • 22:52They may have been life events
  • 22:55or chronic stressors with an
  • 22:57additional stress burden on it,
  • 22:59but they could identify something
  • 23:01that triggered off their insomnia.
  • 23:04So it seems like the API is
  • 23:07on the right track.
  • 23:09It is precipitated by an event of some sort.
  • 23:14Alright, so now we know.
  • 23:17But it looks like we now know the
  • 23:20prevalence of it and we now know that it
  • 23:24is in response to a precipitating event.
  • 23:27What about sleep?
  • 23:29It's an interesting thing.
  • 23:31We would probably take it for
  • 23:33granted that its impact is on sleep,
  • 23:36but we really do need to check that
  • 23:39and so very small scale study really.
  • 23:42Just looking at people with acute
  • 23:44insomnia compared to a group of controls,
  • 23:47matched controls and looking at
  • 23:49their sleep diary information when
  • 23:51we look at people sleep Diaries,
  • 23:53what we do see is that there are
  • 23:57significant differences there.
  • 23:58Reporting increased sleep.
  • 23:59Latency's increased wake after
  • 24:01sleep onset and
  • 24:03certainly reduced total sleep time
  • 24:05and a decreased sleep efficiency
  • 24:08compared to our normal sleepers,
  • 24:10so their self reports of sleep are
  • 24:13poor compared to normal sleepers.
  • 24:16When we look at some of their
  • 24:19measures of stress and mood,
  • 24:21they appear to be reporting more life events.
  • 24:24That makes sense with the precipitants.
  • 24:27Depsite stress over the last month,
  • 24:30that is also significantly higher
  • 24:33than our normal sleepers, as are our
  • 24:36symptoms of anxiety and depression,
  • 24:38so it gives us our first indication of
  • 24:41some of the elements that are feeding into
  • 24:45this experience of acute insomnia, wonderful.
  • 24:50What about the actual sleep?
  • 24:52What's happening with
  • 24:54somebody's sleep architecture?
  • 24:55During acute insomnia?
  • 24:56One of the mysteries that we've got,
  • 25:00certainly in the realm of chronic insomnia,
  • 25:03is that we've never really found a
  • 25:05biological signal within sleep architecture,
  • 25:08and so would we find one
  • 25:11within acute insomnia.
  • 25:12Let's find out the answer is,
  • 25:15there does appear to be a tradeoff
  • 25:18when somebody has acute insomnia.
  • 25:20It appears that there seems to
  • 25:23be a switch between N2 and N3.
  • 25:26We reduced the amount of N3,
  • 25:28slow wave sleep and we increase
  • 25:31at about the same rate.
  • 25:33How levels of N2 or stage two sleep?
  • 25:36So there does appear to be a change
  • 25:39in sleep architecture associated
  • 25:41with having acute insomnia.
  • 25:44Now this is all wonderful.
  • 25:46We're mapping out acute insomnia.
  • 25:48It's beautiful,
  • 25:49it's wonderful.
  • 25:51What we really want to know if
  • 25:53we want to start thinking about
  • 25:55intervening and helping is what really
  • 25:57makes somebody go acute to chronic.
  • 26:00That's the key point.
  • 26:01That's what we want to know,
  • 26:04because we know that in the majority of
  • 26:07cases that it should go away on its own.
  • 26:10So.
  • 26:12Let's characterize people.
  • 26:14So we've taken our group of people
  • 26:17with acute insomnia.
  • 26:19We followed them up.
  • 26:22For the next three months and
  • 26:24we've worked out who's gone on to
  • 26:26develop chronic insomnia and who's
  • 26:28naturally emitted from insomnia.
  • 26:30So we've split that group and we're
  • 26:32going to look at those baseline
  • 26:34characteristics around the sleep
  • 26:36diary and sleep architecture.
  • 26:38Are there any signals at that early
  • 26:40stage which start to give us an
  • 26:43indication of who's going to develop
  • 26:45chronic insomnia and who's not
  • 26:47lose naturally going to get better?
  • 26:50So let's look at sleep diary
  • 26:53information first.
  • 26:54No differences,
  • 26:55so it doesn't appear that the severity
  • 26:58or the perceived severity of symptoms
  • 27:00is the thing that fuels somebody
  • 27:03going from acute to chronic insomnia.
  • 27:06No differences in sleep latency,
  • 27:08number of awakenings,
  • 27:09wake after sleep onset,
  • 27:11total sleep time,
  • 27:13or indeed sleep efficiency.
  • 27:16OK,
  • 27:16so it's not about the severity
  • 27:19of the complaint that drives
  • 27:21acute to chronic insomnia.
  • 27:25Let's look at their architecture,
  • 27:27the baseline architecture.
  • 27:28And here we see some curious differences.
  • 27:30What we see is those people who have acute
  • 27:34insomnia but will remit within three months.
  • 27:37In terms of REM latency,
  • 27:39how rapidly there going into REM,
  • 27:41what we are seeing is that they pretty
  • 27:44much the same as normal sleepers
  • 27:47rather than that 9200 minutes.
  • 27:49Other people who go on to
  • 27:51develop chronic insomnia,
  • 27:52their REM latency is actually quite sure
  • 27:55comparatively on average it's 66 minutes.
  • 27:57Similarly,
  • 27:58when we start to look at slow wave sleep,
  • 28:01we see that there is a linear reduction
  • 28:04in slow wave sleep by group status.
  • 28:07With those people who go on
  • 28:10to develop chronic insomnia,
  • 28:11demonstrating the shortest amounts
  • 28:13of slow wave sleep at baseline.
  • 28:16So that starts to give us an indication now.
  • 28:20Is it about stress?
  • 28:22Is it that stress that is fueling
  • 28:24these changes in terms of REM
  • 28:27in terms of slow wave sleep?
  • 28:29Looking at Life Events scale scores,
  • 28:31no real significant difference
  • 28:33between those two groups,
  • 28:34so it doesn't appear to be about
  • 28:37the veracity of the life events.
  • 28:39What about perceived stress,
  • 28:40scale scores so perceived
  • 28:42stress over the last month?
  • 28:44Again, no significant differences there,
  • 28:45So what it appears is it's
  • 28:48not about the stress,
  • 28:49so we're doing this as a
  • 28:51process of elimination.
  • 28:52That's why it's taking me so many years,
  • 28:55and that's why I look so old.
  • 28:58I'm actually only 19.
  • 28:59But in essence,
  • 29:01through our process of elimination,
  • 29:03we've determined that it's not really
  • 29:05about the severity of the complaint,
  • 29:07and it's not about the
  • 29:09severity of the stress itself.
  • 29:12What do we see this pattern in there?
  • 29:14And this is something that sparked a little
  • 29:17sideline is we've seen this pattern before.
  • 29:19We've seen this pattern in the 70s.
  • 29:22I've seriously reduced REM latency
  • 29:24and reduced slow wave sleep.
  • 29:27Is also a marker.
  • 29:30Of potential depression.
  • 29:31So maybe it's the depression that's firming
  • 29:34this up so we looked specifically at
  • 29:38levels of anxiety levels of depression,
  • 29:41and certainly you can see that those
  • 29:44people who go on to develop chronic insomnia.
  • 29:47They have more anxious and
  • 29:50depressive symptomology at baseline,
  • 29:52so that may well be one of our drivers.
  • 29:57Now the thing we got to remember is
  • 29:59that's actually quite a small sample,
  • 30:00so we.
  • 30:00Want to be a bit more mindful
  • 30:02about larger samples before we
  • 30:04can make these judgments?
  • 30:05And I'm going to come on to that
  • 30:08in the next part of the talk.
  • 30:11So we're going to take a break here.
  • 30:13Before I start talking again,
  • 30:15what do we know?
  • 30:16So what do we know about sleeping
  • 30:19with the enemy acute insomnia?
  • 30:22It is associated with a precipitating event.
  • 30:24It's got a pretty high prevalence,
  • 30:278-9 percent annual incidence
  • 30:29is quite high as well.
  • 30:31It's associated with increased stage,
  • 30:34two decrease slow wave sleep at
  • 30:37transition to chronic insomnia is
  • 30:39associated with the fast onset of
  • 30:42REM and decreased slow wave sleep
  • 30:45that does look quite similar to what
  • 30:48we see is the onset of an
  • 30:52affective disorder alright.
  • 30:54Now we've got to a point of thinking right?
  • 30:56Let's talk about intervention.
  • 30:58What are we going to do about intervention?
  • 31:01If we were to create an intervention.
  • 31:05Where would we intervene?
  • 31:06What's the point that we intervene?
  • 31:09And certainly if we think about
  • 31:11it as a precipitating events,
  • 31:13you'd maybe want to look
  • 31:15at a stress framework,
  • 31:16but that doesn't appear to be the case,
  • 31:19so perhaps we should study the
  • 31:22blue area from Spillmans model.
  • 31:24Maybe we should look to see are
  • 31:26these perpetuate ING behaviors and
  • 31:28cognitions and affective issues?
  • 31:30I think present during acute insomnia.
  • 31:35So this is a much larger sample.
  • 31:39And here we got a group of normal sleepers
  • 31:42737 against people with acute insomnia,
  • 31:45and so we've looked at them in
  • 31:48terms of their sleep symptoms and
  • 31:51predisposing factors of personality,
  • 31:53arousal predisposition and of course
  • 31:55stress and insomnia vulnerability.
  • 31:57Then we've looked at
  • 31:59these precipitants again.
  • 32:00Life events, perceived stress,
  • 32:02anxiety and depression and see if that
  • 32:05anxiety and depression comes forward.
  • 32:08We just want to take account of coping.
  • 32:11Of course, it may be that how you
  • 32:13cope with that initial precipitating
  • 32:15event that fuels whether you develop
  • 32:18insomnia in a chronic form or not.
  • 32:21So we're looking at thought
  • 32:23control strategies and maladaptive
  • 32:25and adaptive forms of coping.
  • 32:27Finally,
  • 32:28let's throw in those perpetuating factors
  • 32:30that really should be plainly tiny tiny.
  • 32:33At this point of acute insomnia,
  • 32:36we're going to look at fatigue,
  • 32:38dysfunctional beliefs,
  • 32:39cognitive and behavioral sleep preoccupation.
  • 32:41What we mean by that is when people
  • 32:45adopt cognitive or behavioral actions
  • 32:47which are detrimental to their sleep.
  • 32:50Going to bed early, for example,
  • 32:52lying in drinking more coffee,
  • 32:54worrying about it during the daytime.
  • 32:58The affect if element of sleep preoccupation
  • 33:01is much more focused on rumination.
  • 33:03I can't stop thinking about it.
  • 33:06I can't get over the insomnia itself.
  • 33:09Finally, we also want to
  • 33:11look at pre sleep arousal.
  • 33:13Is it the point that we've actually
  • 33:16created a form of hyperarousal,
  • 33:18be it somatic or cognitive in
  • 33:21terms of fueling this insomnia?
  • 33:23Alright, so looking at differences
  • 33:26between our normal sleepers and now
  • 33:28individuals with acute insomnia, yeah,
  • 33:31there's differences in each domain.
  • 33:33Now they don't tell us much about
  • 33:36what predict who goes chronic,
  • 33:38what they do do is give us
  • 33:40an indication of what does.
  • 33:42Somebody with their cute insomnia look like.
  • 33:45What are those risks and what
  • 33:48are those associated outcomes
  • 33:50with having acute insomnia?
  • 33:52Again, what we really want to do,
  • 33:54however, is figure out.
  • 33:56What is predicting who goes chronic?
  • 34:01Again, got a nice sample here.
  • 34:03Got 129 people with acute insomnia.
  • 34:06We've separated them out into
  • 34:08those people who get better.
  • 34:10Naturally,
  • 34:10Ramit and those people who go on to
  • 34:14develop chronic insomnia in the future,
  • 34:16and we're going to look up all of
  • 34:20those significant variables that we
  • 34:22got from our cross sectional study
  • 34:24to look at what other
  • 34:26predictors. What predicts it
  • 34:29becoming the enemy a long term enemy?
  • 34:33And Interestingly,
  • 34:34which is not quite what we might expect,
  • 34:37is that it's not about predisposing factors.
  • 34:42In terms of precipitants,
  • 34:44even the anxiety does appear
  • 34:46not to be fueling somebody going
  • 34:49acute to chronic more so.
  • 34:52Depression, depressions, measures,
  • 34:53baseline are a good predictor of
  • 34:56who's going to go chronic against
  • 34:59who is going to go from it.
  • 35:02So higher levels of depression
  • 35:05with about our coping.
  • 35:06Nothing comes through from coping.
  • 35:10But what is interesting?
  • 35:11And I think this talks a lot to
  • 35:14spillmans model is when we look at
  • 35:16the factors that are significant
  • 35:18predictors of who will become chronic.
  • 35:21What we can see is it's focused
  • 35:24largely around cognitive factors,
  • 35:26behavioral actions which are used
  • 35:28to address the insomnia during the
  • 35:31acute phase going to bed early,
  • 35:34lying in napping.
  • 35:35Also, those affect, if ruminations,
  • 35:38that we see.
  • 35:40People can't stop thinking about
  • 35:42sleep craving sleep during that
  • 35:45acute phase that also appears to be
  • 35:48driving us into the chronic insomnia.
  • 35:51So what that gives us is the indication
  • 35:54that we don't really want a stressed
  • 35:57based management system in order
  • 35:59to try to manage acute insomnia,
  • 36:01we want a cognitive behavioral framework,
  • 36:04so this is what we've let us
  • 36:06now to our treatment pathway.
  • 36:12Can we circumvent the transition and
  • 36:14we stop people going from acute to
  • 36:17chronic insomnia and we're going to
  • 36:20use something called A1 single shot.
  • 36:23That's a single shot of CBT I.
  • 36:28So let's go back to those brief
  • 36:30interventions because we need to now
  • 36:32frame how much of our intervention,
  • 36:34how much of that weight do we need
  • 36:37to put in there in order to do what
  • 36:39we need to do to circumvent the
  • 36:42transition to chronic insomnia?
  • 36:44So going back to those brief interventions,
  • 36:46what we can see is generally they're
  • 36:48working on about an hour contact time.
  • 36:51Look at the work of Jack Edinger
  • 36:53and Anne Germain works out at about
  • 36:55an hour on average contact time.
  • 36:59And then if we look at the dose
  • 37:02response trial by Jack Edinger,
  • 37:04four sessions helped the greatest
  • 37:06impact in terms of number of clinical
  • 37:08remissions followed by one session,
  • 37:108 sessions, and then two sessions.
  • 37:13Now I don't know about you,
  • 37:15and if you were maybe do CBT.
  • 37:18I offering somebody four sessions of 15
  • 37:21minutes. Will probably have you killed.
  • 37:24So OK, let's then go back and say next.
  • 37:28One down is one session,
  • 37:30so one session of one hour in
  • 37:32order to get some clinical gain
  • 37:35within chronic insomnia,
  • 37:37which should be enough in order to
  • 37:40affect change in acute insomnia.
  • 37:42Just as a sideline,
  • 37:44Jack Edinger also tried a pamphlet.
  • 37:48And because of that I wanted a pamphlet.
  • 37:50No other reason I want to
  • 37:53conflict with Jack had one.
  • 37:55So now I've got to create a pamphlet, yay.
  • 37:58Alright, so here's the pamphlet.
  • 38:01First simple pamphlet and it's taking
  • 38:04quite a few of the elements of CBT,
  • 38:06but doing him in a much lighter touch.
  • 38:09It's framed.
  • 38:10There's something called the 3D's detect.
  • 38:12So that's how to record a sleep
  • 38:15diary and when to seek help.
  • 38:18Detach that gives us our
  • 38:21stimulus control instructions.
  • 38:22If you're awake in bed,
  • 38:24get out of the bed, do something else,
  • 38:28go back to bed when you are tired and
  • 38:32sleepy again, and finally distract.
  • 38:34This is our cognitive techniques.
  • 38:36We've got cognitive control,
  • 38:38constructive worry,
  • 38:39putting the day to bed before you
  • 38:42go to bed and giving people imagery,
  • 38:45distraction techniques.
  • 38:46As per Alison Harvey.
  • 38:48OK, so we've now got our pamphlet
  • 38:50and it is beautiful, isn't it?
  • 38:53It's blue.
  • 38:55First thing we want to do is check out
  • 38:58the feasibility on the pamphlet itself.
  • 39:01Does the pamphlet do anything
  • 39:02because it's got some active
  • 39:04treatment modalities in it?
  • 39:06Is it doing anything?
  • 39:08So we've done a feasibility study
  • 39:10with a sample of individuals with
  • 39:13acute insomnia and what we can see
  • 39:16is even a week after somebody has
  • 39:18been given just the pamphlet alone.
  • 39:20We see significant reductions in terms
  • 39:22of cognitive and somatic arousal.
  • 39:24Fantastic, we're getting there.
  • 39:26What about the hour?
  • 39:27What are you going to do with
  • 39:29somebody in your single session?
  • 39:31In essence, we talk about sleep,
  • 39:33education and sleep hygiene,
  • 39:35but again, very light touch.
  • 39:37Most patients with insomnia I've
  • 39:39already got pretty good sleep hygiene
  • 39:41by the time they come to you.
  • 39:43It's really focused on sleep restriction,
  • 39:45and so we're doing a basic
  • 39:47sleep restriction protocol,
  • 39:48previous weeks total sleep time becomes
  • 39:51time in bed for the following week.
  • 39:53Anchor your time in bed to the
  • 39:56morning and titrate at 15 minutes
  • 39:58after week one and then every.
  • 40:00Subsequent week,
  • 40:02so very standardized CBT based
  • 40:05sleep restriction protocol.
  • 40:07Introduce the pamphlet and then discuss
  • 40:09any barriers to implementation.
  • 40:11So now we've got our intervention.
  • 40:13We've done all of the background work.
  • 40:16Let's take the intervention out for a spin.
  • 40:20So we've got a randomized control trial.
  • 40:23Again, small sample, but adequately powered.
  • 40:2720 randomized to weightless
  • 40:29control and 20 randomized to the
  • 40:32intervention and the delivery of
  • 40:34the intervention was done by me.
  • 40:36And that's important later on.
  • 40:41Single session 60 to 70 minutes and the
  • 40:44pamphlet given one month follow up.
  • 40:47What is the outcome?
  • 40:49In essence, actually pretty good.
  • 40:51We've got a 60% remission rate at one
  • 40:54month compared to our weakness control,
  • 40:56which is only 15%, which is significant.
  • 41:00What's interesting about the first
  • 41:02trial was that by three months
  • 41:04we saw an increase in remission.
  • 41:06In those people that were treated,
  • 41:09it went up to 70, three point, 7%.
  • 41:11That's not unusual to see within
  • 41:14a CBT format, either that it's
  • 41:16the gift that keeps on giving.
  • 41:18We tend to see increases in total sleep
  • 41:21time after the patient has left us,
  • 41:24so this is a good start.
  • 41:26We've got a good start in terms
  • 41:29of randomized control trial.
  • 41:31I don't know about everyone else,
  • 41:33but I am constantly being asked to
  • 41:36do things quicker, cheaper, faster.
  • 41:38So the next step, D.
  • 41:40Oh no, it's not does it impacts on sleep?
  • 41:44I suppose that's quite an important question,
  • 41:46isn't it? Does it impact on sleep?
  • 41:48Absolutely,
  • 41:49we can see some nice effect sizes,
  • 41:51moderately nice effect sizes in
  • 41:53terms of reductions in sleep latency,
  • 41:55wake after sleep onset, and sleep efficiency.
  • 41:58So, as I was saying,
  • 41:59which I gave you all the opportunities,
  • 42:02think about what you're going to say next.
  • 42:05What's faster and quicker and easier?
  • 42:07Can you do it in groups?
  • 42:09Yep, I was asked if I could do it in groups.
  • 42:14So here we've got our group data.
  • 42:18Again, we're looking at our outcome point is,
  • 42:21those people who have gone into
  • 42:23full remission so they completely
  • 42:25do not have insomnia as per the
  • 42:28insomnia severity index.
  • 42:29One month after treatment,
  • 42:30what we can see is there's not much
  • 42:33difference between group and individual.
  • 42:3569% of those people that were
  • 42:38treated in Group format,
  • 42:39they were in remission compared to
  • 42:42the individual group which was 75%.
  • 42:44But we did see a slight difference
  • 42:46in terms of attrition.
  • 42:49People were more likely to drop out
  • 42:51of group than they were individual,
  • 42:54but it wasn't significant.
  • 42:56OK, so we now know that it works.
  • 42:59We can deliver it in groups.
  • 43:01Now what you want to do is take it
  • 43:03into a population that's incredibly
  • 43:06vulnerable. That's the real test, isn't it?
  • 43:08Find out if you've got a group that's
  • 43:11really vulnerable to acute insomnia.
  • 43:13Give it to them and see if they end
  • 43:16up developing chronic insomnia.
  • 43:19And here we've chosen male prisoners.
  • 43:21For some reason. When you go to prison.
  • 43:26You're very likely to develop insomnia,
  • 43:28and so it starts in the prison.
  • 43:31Think about changes,
  • 43:32environment changes in routine.
  • 43:34There's a lot of stress, alot of concern,
  • 43:37sharing those sorts of things lead into
  • 43:40this vulnerability for acute insomnia,
  • 43:42so we've got 30 male category C prisoners,
  • 43:45so these are the ones that we don't let out.
  • 43:50They're not allowed out there, not organic.
  • 43:53They're not free range.
  • 43:55In essence,
  • 43:56done exactly the same as we've
  • 43:58done in the previous trials,
  • 44:00but this is an open label trial.
  • 44:03What are we looking at in terms
  • 44:05of one month post treatment, 70,
  • 44:08three point, 3% remission rate?
  • 44:10So here's an interesting thing.
  • 44:12So in our first study we had a
  • 44:1560% remission rate one month,
  • 44:17and in the second and third,
  • 44:19it's averaging out around 73 to 75%.
  • 44:22Why is this happening?
  • 44:24Remember, I said I took the first one?
  • 44:27Clearly I'm crap because what happened
  • 44:29in the second study and the third study
  • 44:32is that actually trained people to do
  • 44:34the intervention they've delivered it,
  • 44:36and they've got better outcomes than me,
  • 44:38so I should be terribly ashamed
  • 44:41and will not be doing that again.
  • 44:44Alright, so we've looked at it
  • 44:46in a vulnerable population now.
  • 44:48Wonderful, what about impact on mood.
  • 44:51We know that CBT.
  • 44:52I really does have a knock on effect in
  • 44:56terms of anxiety and depression symptoms.
  • 44:59So when we look at pre treatment versus
  • 45:03post treatment in terms of mood,
  • 45:06anxiety, depression,
  • 45:06we're seeing some really good effect sizes.
  • 45:10Here we're seeing reductions of one
  • 45:12month of over 50% in both anxiety
  • 45:16symptoms and in terms of depressants,
  • 45:18symptomology.
  • 45:19So it's doing what we would expect
  • 45:22from a standardized CBT I,
  • 45:24but it's also just doing it in
  • 45:27that early acute insomnia.
  • 45:29Days alright,
  • 45:30so we're coming to the end
  • 45:32of what was an extravaganza.
  • 45:35What can we conclude?
  • 45:37Single shot of CBT I led to a
  • 45:40fourfold increase in remission rate
  • 45:42that is based upon the first study.
  • 45:46We also saw those improvements
  • 45:48in subjectively reported sleep.
  • 45:50Reductions in arousal anxiety
  • 45:54and depressive symptomology.
  • 45:56And people liked it.
  • 45:58People actually liked the fact
  • 46:00that it was a single session and
  • 46:02that they were given something
  • 46:04tangible to go away with,
  • 46:06and that really made it well tolerable.
  • 46:09Certainly in terms of the dropout rates,
  • 46:12we weren't seeing anything near in
  • 46:14any of the trials that relates to what
  • 46:17we might see in a chronic insomnia parameter,
  • 46:20so that's brilliant.
  • 46:21So it's well tolerated as well.
  • 46:24Where is it going now?
  • 46:25Well, we're actually deploying it.
  • 46:27Due to kovit at the moment,
  • 46:30as you can imagine,
  • 46:31there's a lot of issues which are increasing
  • 46:33the vulnerability for acute insomnia.
  • 46:36So we're running a trial.
  • 46:37At the moment we've got 200
  • 46:39people in it at the moment,
  • 46:42which is giving them an online
  • 46:44version of the one shot.
  • 46:46What about primary care?
  • 46:47It's another area of vulnerability
  • 46:50where we'll see a lot of people
  • 46:52who will attend the PCP or the
  • 46:54GP and talk about acute insomnia.
  • 46:56So we're deploying it.
  • 46:58Out in primary care,
  • 46:59but also Interestingly,
  • 47:01we're going to be using it within
  • 47:03other vulnerable populations
  • 47:05during addiction recovery.
  • 47:07One of the things that we know
  • 47:10is that during recovery,
  • 47:11although sleep may not become
  • 47:13a problem during recovery,
  • 47:15it is have been identified by
  • 47:17patients that have undergone addiction
  • 47:19recovery as a vulnerability and a
  • 47:21concern that they feel that if their
  • 47:24sleep goes wonky that they will
  • 47:26end up going back to their drugs or alcohol.
  • 47:29So we're trying to see whether it
  • 47:32circumvents not only the issues
  • 47:34around sleep and that vulnerability,
  • 47:36but maybe it has a knock on effect.
  • 47:39In terms of relapse an we're now
  • 47:41running it out and I think 5 places
  • 47:44these are independent trials.
  • 47:45I'm not running any of these, thankfully.
  • 47:50We're actually running it in oncology
  • 47:53and so this is now being deployed in
  • 47:56the US and Australia and in the UK.
  • 47:58And when somebody gets a diagnosis
  • 48:00of any form of cancer and they're
  • 48:02just about to start treatment
  • 48:04protocols 'cause we know that that's
  • 48:07an increasing vulnerability period.
  • 48:08People have been given the intervention
  • 48:11as a prophylactic, and what we're
  • 48:13looking at in those respects is,
  • 48:15is it impacting on sleep, insomnia,
  • 48:17the development of insomnia itself?
  • 48:20But is it also having an impact on
  • 48:23recovery and treatment pathways?
  • 48:25So some very exciting things
  • 48:27happening in the future.
  • 48:31As with all my talks,
  • 48:33you know I don't do half of this stuff.
  • 48:35You know I have collaborators
  • 48:37from all around the world who
  • 48:39do all of the work for me.
  • 48:41I've got my lab team and
  • 48:43that's a picture of us.
  • 48:44When we were allowed out,
  • 48:46I think we all might look a
  • 48:48little bit different by the time
  • 48:49we're all allowed back in again.
  • 48:51But of course, there's also people
  • 48:53that fund the work that I do,
  • 48:55that I'm always eternally grateful for.
  • 48:57OK, thanks very much.
  • 48:58That's me.
  • 49:01Great, that's really wonderful.
  • 49:03So I'm under is in truck and I'm helping
  • 49:05out Brianne and monitoring the session.
  • 49:07She unfortunately had to run out.
  • 49:11Quickly it at the beginning of the session,
  • 49:14but so thank you for this wonderful talk.
  • 49:16Doctor Ellis is really insightful and
  • 49:18evolution of sleep disorder from its
  • 49:20Genesis all the way to treatment.
  • 49:22It was really nice to see that,
  • 49:24and it's a problem that we encountered
  • 49:26commonly and I'm sure many of the
  • 49:28audience I've encountered it,
  • 49:30especially now that we're having
  • 49:31multiple social and health
  • 49:33stressors during these times.
  • 49:34And so I'd like to invite the
  • 49:36audience to ask some questions.
  • 49:38And while folks are typing
  • 49:39things in and chat,
  • 49:41which I'll be happy.
  • 49:42Train if you wanted to ask
  • 49:43question person just let me know.
  • 49:45I'll I'll be happy to meet you.
  • 49:47I just wanted to start off with.
  • 49:49A question as well,
  • 49:51and so are there some components of
  • 49:53the one shot interventions that use?
  • 49:55Note that might work better than others,
  • 49:58or something you think it's
  • 50:00it's intervention.
  • 50:00It is a cute subtype of insomnia,
  • 50:02something that has to be.
  • 50:04Tailored to each individual
  • 50:05patient by therapist,
  • 50:07it's a
  • 50:08really nice question. Thank you,
  • 50:10that was not set up for everybody else.
  • 50:14One of the things that we did is we.
  • 50:17We interviewed all of the patients in
  • 50:18each of those three studies afterwards
  • 50:20and found you know what worked for you.
  • 50:22What didn't work for you.
  • 50:24What appears anecdotally to be
  • 50:26the strongest element from the one
  • 50:28shot is actually in the pamphlet
  • 50:30rather than the one hour session,
  • 50:33and that is the stimulus
  • 50:35control instructions.
  • 50:36So there is an understanding then
  • 50:39that perhaps if we wanted to
  • 50:41tailor this down even further,
  • 50:43let's just start with stimulus
  • 50:45control and then see what happens.
  • 50:47Stop doing almost a deconstruction study,
  • 50:49which is one of the things that
  • 50:52we're doing at the moment.
  • 50:54It certainly appears people like
  • 50:55the cognitive strategies,
  • 50:57the distraction strategies,
  • 50:58but they are they.
  • 51:00They feel that the benefit is
  • 51:02really coming from stimulus control.
  • 51:05Interesting.
  • 51:07Excellent, well thank you for that.
  • 51:09So let's see there's a question
  • 51:11from you requesting Doctor Ellis.
  • 51:13Do we know how the nature of the
  • 51:15precipitating stressful life events looks
  • 51:17different between acute to remission,
  • 51:19acute to chronic groups?
  • 51:20And of course there is taking
  • 51:22you for a great presentation.
  • 51:24And so I think the question is
  • 51:26whether there's a difference in
  • 51:28stressors in acute versus chronic.
  • 51:30Find Sonia.
  • 51:32It's an interesting point.
  • 51:34It really does speak to model
  • 51:36of insomnia by Colin SP.
  • 51:38You know his psychobiological
  • 51:39inhibition model.
  • 51:40What Collins suggests is
  • 51:41that during the acute phase,
  • 51:43the stress that the sleep
  • 51:45loss should be due to stress,
  • 51:47but then there is a switch point
  • 51:50and I think that's the Holy Grail
  • 51:53of what we're looking for here
  • 51:55is when does it become that the.
  • 51:58This dress causing the sleep loss
  • 52:01becomes the sleep loss as a stressor itself,
  • 52:04and I think that is where we might find
  • 52:08this transition point to chronic insomnia.
  • 52:11When we've looked at the types of stressors.
  • 52:16Between our groups,
  • 52:17those who commit those who don't commit.
  • 52:20Not only is there no differences in
  • 52:22terms of life events or perceived
  • 52:25stress and anxiety depression,
  • 52:27although depression does appear
  • 52:29to be a factor in there.
  • 52:32What is interesting is that
  • 52:34you're seeing financial issues,
  • 52:35so we've asked people more qualitatively,
  • 52:38what are the issues?
  • 52:40Are they financial,
  • 52:41social, environmental,
  • 52:42occupational?
  • 52:42Financial issues appear to be
  • 52:45something that drives chronic
  • 52:47insomnia into it's chronic form,
  • 52:49as opposed to remission.
  • 52:50That's probably because the
  • 52:52longevity of financial issues,
  • 52:54but there weren't really any
  • 52:56other differences in terms of the
  • 52:58types of stressors or the length
  • 53:00of the stressors that really
  • 53:02impacted on whether somebody got
  • 53:04better or somebody got worse.
  • 53:08Interesting, thank you.
  • 53:10Let's see it so there's another
  • 53:12question from folks at the
  • 53:14VA Veteran Affairs Hospital.
  • 53:15So so. Doctor Ellis,
  • 53:16any digital CBT tool that you
  • 53:18personally like and recommend.
  • 53:21Oh
  • 53:24oh, not not
  • 53:25to put you on the spot.
  • 53:29Yeah, I mean, we've got three in the UK.
  • 53:33So sleepy, of course, is the most well
  • 53:35known of the three that are used in
  • 53:37the UK. Yep. I certainly
  • 53:41feel that it digital has got
  • 53:43its place. Because of widespread
  • 53:46dissemination and implementation.
  • 53:48I do worry about
  • 53:50some of the issues around
  • 53:52digital in terms of engagement.
  • 53:54And also when people are doing
  • 53:57online therapy, you know.
  • 54:00When I'm doing therapy face to face,
  • 54:02you have to come see me at the time of which
  • 54:06is specified. If you're doing it remotely,
  • 54:08what's not to stop you from doing it
  • 54:11at 8:00 o'clock nine o'clock at night,
  • 54:13which may well have actually
  • 54:16detrimental impact? And the other
  • 54:18thing before I advocate for anyone.
  • 54:20It is the fact that you know when we look
  • 54:23at the work of Nora Vincent. For example,
  • 54:25when she's looked at stat care models,
  • 54:27there's quite a high level of people
  • 54:29who will not update for digital CBT.
  • 54:31I. So a lot of people don't like it,
  • 54:35don't want it.
  • 54:36There was a really nice idea, but she did.
  • 54:39If I was to advocate for one,
  • 54:42I would advocate for one which
  • 54:44is called sleep Four,
  • 54:45which was developed in the UK.
  • 54:47The reason that I would say that
  • 54:49I fondest fan of that particular
  • 54:51variant is because a I was one
  • 54:53of the beta testers on it,
  • 54:55so I know what it was like.
  • 54:58B, it's free.
  • 55:00Because it was built upon
  • 55:02government money and in the UK,
  • 55:04if you're building it up on NIH money,
  • 55:06or you know government money,
  • 55:08then it has to be made freely available
  • 55:10and we do like a nice freebie.
  • 55:13So
  • 55:14I think those those sort of swing me towards
  • 55:16sleep full as opposed to sleep here,
  • 55:18although I think it's a it's a great product
  • 55:20and please don't tell Colin I said back
  • 55:23I'm going to tell him. I knew it no
  • 55:27no. So I have a
  • 55:29question. What is the
  • 55:31reimbursement like? What
  • 55:32is the reimbursement like is that's
  • 55:34in the US? That's a huge issue.
  • 55:37For CBT I yeah yeah this is been
  • 55:40both a helping a hindrance to
  • 55:43us in the fact that we've got
  • 55:45our National Health Service,
  • 55:47so our socialized medicine
  • 55:48in the sense that there is no
  • 55:51issues around reimbursement.
  • 55:53But the problem is is it's so
  • 55:56sporadic in order to get the CBT
  • 55:59service up and running in the UK,
  • 56:02it's very challenging. Name there's about
  • 56:058 places in the UK where you can
  • 56:08get face to face CBT in the UK.
  • 56:11Which is not great and this is one of
  • 56:14the reasons why online digital CBT I is
  • 56:17becoming a lot more popular in the UK,
  • 56:19and certainly it's going through
  • 56:21at the moment as I'm sitting on
  • 56:24the panel again. Don't
  • 56:25tell Colin I'm sitting on the
  • 56:27panel so that it will become part
  • 56:30of the National Health Service,
  • 56:31so it'll be freely
  • 56:33deliverable from GP surgeries.
  • 56:34OK, so that will improve the situation.
  • 56:37But you know, I always have this
  • 56:39thing about face to face is.
  • 56:41Is a very important factor
  • 56:43because of therapeutic alliance.
  • 56:46Great, well thank you I think just a
  • 56:49couple of more questions in the comments.
  • 56:51So for the folks at the VA who
  • 56:53are asking questions about apps,
  • 56:55there's actually a VA based CBT I coach
  • 56:58that was developed by researchers at the VA,
  • 57:00which you might be familiar with,
  • 57:02and so that's freely available also
  • 57:04to patients and their loved ones
  • 57:06and doctor Schneeberg from our
  • 57:08sleep center is asking whether you
  • 57:10have any tips on delivering CBT.
  • 57:11I via Tele medicine.
  • 57:15You know CBT is selling thing.
  • 57:17I think it's less about therapeutics
  • 57:19'cause they can be delivered
  • 57:21in a variety of contexts.
  • 57:23This is about selling and I think
  • 57:25that you know my my experience of
  • 57:27telling medicine has been limited,
  • 57:29but in that respect,
  • 57:31what we have tended to do is we focused
  • 57:34much more on that interactive process
  • 57:36in terms of the we're trying to get
  • 57:39that therapeutic alliance across.
  • 57:40I think that's the only way to sell
  • 57:43it through therapeutic alliance,
  • 57:45especially when it's removed.
  • 57:48Great, well thank you so much for
  • 57:51a wonderful talk and for great
  • 57:53answers to the questions and this.
  • 57:55I think I know is useful for
  • 57:57everybody in the audience and perhaps
  • 57:58looking forward to having you in our
  • 58:01sessions another time another year,
  • 58:03maybe even in person.
  • 58:04Who knows, we'll go out and say it there,
  • 58:07but just as the call out to the
  • 58:10rest of the group is that we'll
  • 58:12resume our next session next week
  • 58:14and looking forward to a great talk.
  • 58:17Alright, thanks, everybody.
  • 58:18Take care.
  • 58:19So much bye bye.
  • 58:22Bye bye. Goodbye doctor player.
  • 58:28Hi.