REST: Restoring Effective Sleep Tranquility in College Veterans With Service-Related Injuries

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Conditions studied: Chronic Insomnia

In brief

The purpose of the project is to improve the sleep quality and sleep duration of post 9/11 veterans seeking college degrees. Preliminary research findings within CSU's New Start for Student Veterans program indicate veterans with service-related injuries report difficulties with sleep quality and duration. The REST program will recruit 24 college veterans and engage them in a seven-week multi component sleep improvement program using evidence-based educational and behavioral change supports that are considered best practice for improving sleep quality. The investigators' scientific objectives in this application are to establish the efficacy of a group-based sleep education and sleep-skills intervention to improve sleep quality and duration, and to advance understanding of relationships between participants' sleep-related knowledge and behaviors associated with improved sleep quality and duration in veterans with service-related injuries in college. The investigators will initially engage 8 participants to establish treatment fidelity and participant satisfaction of the 7-week group intervention. This will be followed by engaging 16 additional participants in the 7-week group intervention, 8 will be randomly placed as wait-list controls and then receive the intervention. The 7-week group intervention will take place within the CSU Occupational Therapy Department, and all assessments will be completed using a web-based survey.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02871414

Run by

Colorado State University

People needed

24

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-20

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• enrolled in university classes
• age 18 or older
• self-report a service-related injury
• present a U.S. Military DD-214 form indicating honorable separation from service
• 10 or higher on the Insomnia Severity Index

You may not qualify if…

• Unstable bipolar disorder
• active seizure disorder.

Where it is running

• Colorado State University — Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

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