A four-session programme may help people go to bed when they planned
HelpedThe short version
Four one-to-one sessions cut how long people put off going to bed, more than the other group did.
- 15
- young adults who put off going to bed
- Randomised
- groups picked at random
- Self-rated
- people rated themselves
The study
Who took part
15 young adults who put off going to bed, in Korea. Twelve were women, and six were in the programme group and nine in the other group.
What they did
The programme group had four face-to-face sessions, one person at a time. The other group filled in the same questionnaires and seven-day sleep diaries.
What happened
In sleep diaries, putting off bedtime fell from about 75 minutes to about 15 in the programme group. The other group stayed about the same, from about 58 minutes to about 54. The programme group also felt more rested, felt less sleepy by day, and had fewer negative feelings.
What the study found
- Helped
Four one-to-one sessions cut how long people put off going to bed, more than the other group did.
Very small randomised trial of 15 young adults who put off going to bed · vs the other group, who filled in questionnaires and diaries · they rated themselves · ⚠ only a short summary available
How solid is this?
- Groups picked at random
- Very small group
- People rated themselves
- Only a short summary available
Source
A randomized controlled trial of a psychological intervention for decreasing bedtime procrastination: the BED-PRO study (2020)
