What a refreshing couple of days it was at #SovNo National Sleep Conference, where TSG participated in full force.
We shared our latest findings from trials investigating the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and adherence of fully automated digital therapy for insomnia. We also shared secondary outcomes from a trial investigating the effect of blue-depleted light environment in an acute psychiatric ward. The conference brought together a small but multidisciplinary group of experts focusing on sleep research. In particular, I learned that: 1. Insomnia’s prevalence is not uniform. In Norway, just like the rest of the world, prevalence is higher among women, lower socioeconomic groups, and clinical populations. 2. Insomnia‘s effects penetrate down to the molecular level, leaving biomarkers in proteins in the bloodstream. 3. Surprisingly, there was little effect of seasonal daylight variation on sleep in shift workers in Norway’s northern regions, but perhaps future research will unfold the nuances of within-subject variations. 4. Therapist-guided CBT for insomnia can help parents relieve sleep problems among infants. Naturally, this also improves parents own sleep. A personal highlight was meeting my PhD co-supervisor, Filip Drozd, and learning more about his SovGodt project at RBUP Øst og Sør - regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse. This is a cutting-edge treatment empowering nurses in well-baby clinics to help parents tackle infant sleep disturbances using the latest advances in digital CBT-I. Certainly a need of the hour.A big thanks to Forhelse - Forskningssenter for digitale helsetjenester - SFI for giving me the opportunity to share my research at SovNo.
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