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. 2019 Aug 15;18:100265. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2019.100265

Table 1.

Overview of content for the OSA-Insomnia session and each of the original BNBD sessions.

Session name Session content
OSA-Insomnia Pre-session: navigating insomnia after OSA treatment
  • Education about OSA etiology, symptoms, consequences, and primary treatments

  • Understanding the relationship between OSA and insomnia

  • Investigating the behaviourally-based connection between the two disorders (e.g., how night wakings that arose during OSA may become habitual even after OSA treatment)

Session 1: introduction to Better Nights, Better Days (BNBD)
  • Education about how sleep works and the consequences of poor sleep with a focus on insomnia

  • Introduction to the BNBD team

Session 2: healthy sleep practices
  • Information about healthy sleep practices and the ways in which they can lead to better sleep

Session 3: settling to sleep
  • Focus on settling independently at bedtime (i.e., self-soothing)

Session 4: going back to sleep
  • Addresses what to do if a child wakes during the night or is up too early in the morning

Session 5: looking back and ahead
  • Review the progress made over the previous sessions

  • Revisit goals and address how to maintain them in the future