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. 2019 Sep 15;11(9):2227. doi: 10.3390/nu11092227

Table 5.

Summary of components of the sleep hygiene module per session.

Session Intervention Objectives/Components
Session 1
  • Goal-setting and action-planning: Objective specification and commitment

  • Self-monitoring: Sleep diary

  • Psychoeducation: What is sleep hygiene?

  • Cognitive restructuring: Irrational, false or inaccurate beliefs about sleep

  • Breathing and relaxation techniques: Diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation

Session 2
  • Review of behavioural goals, action plans, and compliance (participant’s homework)

  • Self-monitoring: Sleep diary

  • Psychoeducation: Voluntary sleep restriction; coffee, alcohol and tobacco consumption before sleep; and irregular sleep schedule and environment

  • Cognitive restructuring: Irrational, false or inaccurate beliefs about sleep

  • Review of diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation

Session 3
  • Review of behavioural goals, action plans, and compliance (participant’s homework)

  • Self-monitoring: Sleep diary

  • Vicarious and self-reinforcement: Changes in sleep habits achieved and benefits

  • Stimulus control and bedtime restriction

  • Review of diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation

Session 4
  • Review of behavioural goals, action plans, and compliance (participant’s homework)

  • Self-monitoring: Sleep diary

  • Vicarious and self-reinforcement: Changes in sleep habits achieved and benefits

  • Review of all intervention components: Main factors of sleep hygiene, diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation, stimulus control and bedtime restriction

  • Maintenance and relapse prevention: Analysis of high risk situations for unhygienic sleep.