CBT-i Coach is a free and publicly available mobile app for people with sleep disorders who, together with a clinical provider, carry out cognitive behavioral therapy for sleep disorders (CBT-I). CBT-i Coach is a free and publicly available mobile app for people with sleep disorders who, together with a clinical provider, carry out cognitive behavioral therapy for sleep disorders (CBT-I). To find out how to best treat your sleep disorders, your sleep therapist may ask you to keep a detailed sleep diary for one to two weeks. CBT-i Coach is a mobile app for people who use CBT-I with a healthcare provider or who have experienced symptoms of sleep disorders and want to improve their sleep habits.
They wanted to know whether telemedicine CBTi performed similarly (i.e. no worse than) on-site CBTi in reducing the severity of sleep disorders.
Can CBT help with sleep disorders?
For CBT-I to be effective, it is important to be open to unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. The Department of Veterans Affairs offers its own app called CBT-I Coach, which is suitable for both non-veterans and veterans. CBT-I can help people with primary insomnia as well as people with physical problems such as chronic pain or mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. Arnedt and his team randomly assigned six individual CBTI sessions to 65 adults with chronic insomnia, which were conducted either in person or telemedicine.
Unfortunately, due to the widespread need for this treatment, there aren’t enough CBT-I professionals to meet current demand.