Payton White

CONTACT

Bernadette A Fausto, PhD

CONTACT

Lead Sponsor

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Collaborators

Age

60 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Reading level 6th grade or better and can speak and understand English well.
•Self-identify as African American or Black.
•Ages 60 and over.
•Score of \>2 in PSQI sleep duration, sleep disturbance, or overall sleep quality calculated components.
•Participating in the "Pathways to Healthy Aging in African Americans" study.
•Has established chronic insomnia issues for at least three months.
•Subjects must be willing to participate in 8 sessions of CBT-I via Zoom for the CBT-I group.
•Subjects must be willing to come for pre/post assessment visits.
•MoCA score of between 20-26.

•Currently taking any of the following medications consistently: Benzodiazepines (ProSom, Restoril, Ativan and Xanax); Z Drugs (eszopiclone (Lunesta), zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar, and Zolpimist); antidepressants that affect sleep (doxepin, mirtazapine, trazodone); antihistamines (diphenhydramine and doxylamine succinate); barbiturates (methohexital, pentobarbital, primidone, secobarbital).
•Diagnosed with any sleep disorder other than insomnia (i.e. obstructive sleep apnea using STOP-BANG, restless leg syndrome, REM sleep behavior disorder, etc.).
•Classified as high fall risk.
•Primary causes for frequent awakenings are due to a medical condition that is not related to insomnia, such as chronic pain, urinary frequency, upper respiratory infection.
•Previous experience with CBT-I.