Brief Intervention for Sleep Medication Misuse Among Elderly

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Harmful Use of Hypnotic

In brief

Randomized controlled trial to evaluate effectiveness of behavioral Brief Intervention administered by General practitioners (GPs) versus business as usual on use of Z-hypnotics by elderly patients in primary care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06032715

Run by

University Hospital, Akershus

People needed

120

Starts

2023-10-09

Expected to finish

2025-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2024-11-15

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Self-reported use of Z-hypnotics > 4 days per week and > 4 weeks

You may not qualify if…

• diagnosis of dementia,
• diagnosis of psychosis,
• diagnosis of major depression,
• diagnosis of delirium,
• unable to give informed consent,
• insufficient Norwegian language capacity to complete tests

Where it is running

• Akershus University Hospital — Lørenskog, Norway (enrolling)

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