Two Contrasting Interventions for Sleep Management

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will determine whether Mind-Body Bridging (MBB), a mindfulness training program is more effective than a common sleep medication, Zolpidem, in treating insomnia. It will also investigate whether MBB is additionally beneficial for co-morbid conditions such as stress, PTSD, depression, etc, compared with that of Zolpidem.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Utah
• Collaborator: Evans Army Community Hospital
• Treatments: Zolpidem

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• primary insomnia

• secondary insomnia

• requiring sleep medication (Zolpidem) for a three-week trial.

• active duty military service member stationed at Fort Carson.

Exclusion Criteria:

• secondary insomnia to a likely medical condition, such as sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, restless leg syndrome, and other sleep disorders, which are not appropriately treatable with sleep medication.

• treated for sleep problems using sleep medications which include Lunesta, Ambien, Ambien Controlled Release (CR), Seroquel, Trazodone or Remeron

• major psychopathology (i.e., schizophrenia)

• severe depression within the past 90 days

• suicidal ideation within the past 90 days

• psychiatrically hospitalized within the past 90 days

• uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes

• pregnancy

• previous use of Zolpidem proved to be ineffective or to cause other unwanted side effects

• actively abusing controlled substances

• enrolled in another study