Study of Beliefs about Sleep & Mood V1. 26.09.2017
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Study of Beliefs about Sleep and Mood
IRAS ID
224054
Contact name
Lydia Pearson
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 29 days
Research summary
Sleep and mood are linked. People describe changes to sleep before and as part of low and high mood experiences. This is particularly the case of bipolar disorder (BD).
Both sleep and mood difficulties are known to have a big impact on a person’s quality of life. The impact is also felt on society due to loss of work and health care costs. It is therefore important that research is done to understand the best treatment options for a person that will offer support for both difficulties.
Cognitive therapy (CT) is a talking therapy that looks at cognitive processes that affect people and the difficulties they experience. CT is a useful treatment for people who experience the sleep difficulty known as ‘insomnia’. A key part of the treatment is to look at negative beliefs a person might have about not sleeping. However, insomnia is not the only sleep difficulty that is reported as happening before or as part of mood difficulties. Needing less sleep is often experienced when a person is experiencing high mood, such as mania in BD.
For this reason, it is important that more work is done to better understand both positive and negative beliefs about sleep that may in fact be disrupting and maintaining sleep difficulties across different mood experiences.
This study will test a new measure that has set out to identify positive and negative beliefs about sleep. It will look at whether these are believed more by individuals who experience difficulties with both high and low mood experiences as compared to a group of individuals who experience only low mood and the general population.
REC name
East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1
REC reference
17/ES/0140
Date of REC Opinion
20 Nov 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion