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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Palliat Support Care. 2024 Apr;22(2):226–235. doi: 10.1017/S1478951523000627

Table 1.

MSOS Intervention Session Content

Session Content
#1: Sleep Behavior MSOS introduction
Review individuals’ sleep habits
Psychoeducation on sleep behaviors: two process model of sleep, sleep hygiene, sleep control
Setting goals for sleep behavior changes
Homework assignment – sleep behaviors
#2: Sleep Cognition Review homework of session 1
Psychoeducation on sleep cognition: identify noisy thoughts, active mind, automatic negative thoughts, worries, with focus on cancer-related cognition
Setting goals for monitoring sleep cognition
Homework assignment – sleep behaviors & monitoring sleep cognition
#3: Sleep Cognition Review homework of session 2
Psychoeducation on sleep cognition: challenging and reframing noisy thoughts, active mind, automatic negative thoughts, worries, with focus on cancer-related cognition
Setting goals for reframing sleep cognition
Homework assignment – sleep behaviors & monitoring and reframing sleep cognition
#4: Sleep in Relationship Review homework of session 3
-Psychoeducation on sleep in relationship: effective communication; behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in the cancer journey
-Psychoeducation on good sleep maintenance and relapse prevention
Setting goals for effective communication, good sleep maintenance and relapse prevention
Homework assignment – sleep behaviors, monitoring and reframing sleep cognition, effective communication with partner, good sleep maintenance