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A complete six-week CBT-I course.

This is a six-week course built on CBT-I, which medical guidelines recommend as the first treatment for long-term insomnia in adults. In trials, people who did an online CBT-I course slept better than people given sleep advice alone. This course hasn't been tested in a trial of its own.

From week two the course has you spend less time in bed, and the first few weeks of that are hard. You see your own week-two sleep window before you pay.

What it would do

  • Sleep diaryTwenty seconds a morning. Apple Health sleep can fill a starting value you confirm.
  • Your sleep windowSet from your diary and adjusted each week by the standard efficiency rule, with the reason shown.
  • Six weekly modulesSleep drive and the body clock, stimulus control, the sleep window, the racing mind, relapse plans, and coming off sleeping tablets with your prescriber.
  • Waking at 3amWhat to do when you wake in the night, with an audio track for the time out of bed.
  • Screening firstQuestions about sleep apnoea, shift work, pregnancy, bipolar disorder and seizures, which send you to a doctor instead of the course.
  • Weekly cardTime in bed, sleep efficiency and next week's window.
  • Doctor reportA PDF for your GP, and a CSV export at any time that you keep after the course.

What it would not do

  • It does not replace a doctor.
  • It is not for shift workers, pregnancy, untreated sleep apnoea, bipolar disorder or seizures.
  • The course would follow the Australasian Sleep Association's guidance on CBT-I, shown in the app.

The planned price

A$79.99 once. No subscription.

The first week (the diary and your first sleep window) would be free. Nothing is for sale yet, and joining the list costs nothing.

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The evidence behind the method

  • Australasian Sleep Association position statement, 2017 (Sleep Medicine 36, Suppl 1, S43-S47): CBT-I is the first-line treatment for insomnia in adults.
  • American College of Physicians guideline, 2016: CBT-I is the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia in adults.
  • Ritterband et al., JAMA Psychiatry 2017;74:68: an online CBT-I course against sleep education.
  • Kyle et al., Sleep 2014: the early weeks of sleep restriction.