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
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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
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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
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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.
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