World’s First Insomnia Prevention Programme
CUHK-HKU-UL Conducts World’s First Insomnia Prevention Programme and Proves Insomnia is Preventable in At-risk Adolescents
Adolescence is a critical period accompanied by dramatic neurobiological, physical, behavioural and emotional changes, predisposing the youngsters to sleep disorders, mental and physical illnesses. It is a vulnerable period for the emergence of insomnia, affecting 10% to 36% of the adolescents. Insomnia once developed, tends to run a chronic course with considerable personal distress and health care burden.
The world’s first randomised controlled trial of brief insomnia prevention programme for at-risk adolescents has been conducted by The Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine), in collaboration with the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and the School of Psychology of Université Laval (UL), Quebec City, Canada. Results showed that there was a 71% risk reduction in the development of insomnia disorder over the 1-year follow up period. MORE…..
