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Characterization of Sleep With Trauma Nightmares Using Ambulatory Sleep Measurement
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy and Sleep and Nightmare Management for Nightmares and 4 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 48 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Trauma-related nightmares in Veterans are associated with poor clinical outcomes, greater substance use, and increased risk of suicide. In spite of an urgent need to reduce the burden of trauma-related nightmares, the underlying physiological changes associated with them are poorly understood, and there are no clear evidence-based recommendations for their treatment. Limitations of current assessment procedures represent a barrier to improved care. In-laboratory sleep studies rarely capture nightmares, limiting the knowledge about them and their response to treatment. This study addresses these limitations by using extended, in-home sleep monitoring to capture sleep data associated with nightmare reports in Veterans, and assessing how these features are altered throughout a cognitive-behavioral nightmare treatment. Results from this study will increase understanding of trauma-related nightmares, and advance strategies for personalizing symptom management for Veterans.
Study Details
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Interventions
ERRT is a weekly 5-session treatment aimed at reducing chronic trauma nightmares and sleep disturbances in trauma-exposed adults.
This is a manualized protocol developed to be of similar length but exclude the active components of standard ERRT.