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Telephone-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) significantly improves sleep quality and reduces insomnia severity in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with vasomotor symptoms compared to menopause education.
If you are a perimenopausal or postmenopausal woman struggling with sleep and hot flashes, consider telephone-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). This treatment involves six brief phone sessions over two months focusing on sleep scheduling and changing sleep-related thoughts. It has been proven to significantly improve sleep quality and reduce the interference of hot flashes on daily life, offering a practical alternative to medications with fewer side effects.
Telephone-based CBT-I effectively improved sleep in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women with insomnia and vasomotor symptoms, both immediately after treatment and at 24 weeks of follow-up.
Why this rating
Randomized clinical trial with intent-to-treat analysis and blinded assessments.
Source
Telephone-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Women With Vasomotor Symptoms
Susan M. McCurry et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine · 2016
DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1795
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