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Increasing access to and utilization of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I): a narrative review
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently identified cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) as the first-line treatment for insomnia. Although CBT-I improves sleep outcomes and reduces the risks associated with reliance on hypnotics, patients are rarely referred to this treatment, especially in primary care where most insomnia treatment is provided. We reviewed the evidence about barriers to CBT-I referrals and efforts to increase the use of CBT-I services. PubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase were searched on January 11, 2018; additional titles were added based on a review of bibliographies and expert opinion and 51 articles were included in the results of this narrative review. Implementation research testing specific interventions to increase routine and sustained use of CBT-I was lacking. Most research focused on pre-implementation work that revealed the complexity of delivering CBT-I in routine healthcare settings due to three distinct categories of barriers. First, system barriers result in limited access to CBT-I and behavioral sleep medicine (BSM) providers. Second, primary care providers are not adequately screening for sleep issues and referring appropriately due to a lack of knowledge, treatment beliefs, and a lack of motivation to assess and treat insomnia. Finally, patient barriers, including a lack of knowledge, treatment beliefs, and limited access, prevent patients from engaging in CBT-I. These findings are organized using a conceptual model to represent the many challenges inherent in providing guideline-concordant insomnia care. We conclude with an agenda for future implementation research to systematically address these challenges.
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InfluentialCBTI web implementation outcomes: one-year follow up
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“…together, the results indicate that the CBTI web training platform has the potential to serve an important role of disseminating CBTI training through increasing accessibility to reduce the geographical disparities (Thomas et al., 2016) and paucity of CBTI trained providers (Koffel et al., 2018).”
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“However, constraints in time and resources often act as barriers that reduce patient access to CBT-I.(42) While men are often considered less likely than women to engage in behavioral therapies, research does not necessarily support that sex is a significant factor in CBT-I overall.”
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“However, not all patients are willing to participate in CBT-I, nor do they always have access to it (Buenaver et al. 2019; Koffel et al. 2018).”
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“In line with a previous literature review [74], interviewed HCPs and patients expressed limited knowledge about CBT-I and its potential benefits.”
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“However, implementing exercise in daily clinical practice remains challenging, particularly due to low treat-ment adherence rates [39–41].”
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Mind-Body Interventions for Comorbid Sleep and Gastrointestinal Concerns
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“First, demand for CBT-I providers drastically exceeds availability [70], and access is further complicated by issues related to feasibility of screening and referral within medical settings.”
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“…barriers, which include lack of knowledge of non-phar-maceutical options, reluctance to engage with CBT-I, and trivialization of insomnia symptoms, can also result in, respectively, demand for Z-drugs, non-compliance with nonpharmacological therapies, and underdiagnosis or undertreatment [14].”
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“…OSA assessment and management, insufficient trained providers of CBTi, and inequities in access to sleep health care for individuals living in rural and remote areas and/or on low income, make accessing assessment and treatment of OSA and chronic insomnia a challenge for some individuals [30–35].”
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“Difficulties in meaning-making, motivational alignment, and sustained engagement during treatment practice have been associated with reduced adherence and inconsistent long-term use in real-world dCBT-I settings [25,26].”
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“While CBT-I is suggested as the dominant treatment, its accessibility and adherence remain limited (8).”
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“I is recommended as first‑line but underuti‑ lized because of limited trained providers and low patient awareness [6]; however, pharmacotherapy has safety concerns, including cognitive decline, fall risk, and dependence [7].”
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“Such interventions may be helpful in preventing the worsening of sleep difficulties, particularly while waiting for access to limited behavioral sleep medicine providers and specialist sleep therapy resources, such as cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (Koffel et al., 2018).”
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“However, the dissemination of CBT-I is limited by a shortage of practitioners and financial barriers, which reduce its accessibility and acceptance among most patients with chronic insomnia, hindering its widespread adoption (Koffel et al., 2018).”
Innovative Approaches to Advancing Equitable Access to Insomnia Interventions
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“This shift reflects longstanding evidence that behavioral sleep medicine services remain insufficient relative to population need, with research docu - menting a limited number of clinicians trained in CBT-I and uneven availability across care settings [29–31].”
Self-Directed vs Clinician-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain
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Management of Insomnia Disorder
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The Future of Sleep Medicine: A Patient-Centered Model of Care
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“Secondly, the high cost of treatment and the lack of behavioral sleep medicine specialists restrict access of CBT-I to many patients.(26,27) Third, CBT-I is ineffective in 20–30% of insomnia patients.”
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“To make CBTI widely available to YACS, several barriers need to be resolved, including the shortage of trained CBTI providers [32,33], the patient burden of standard CBTI regimens [34-36], and the lack of CBTI interventions specifically targeting the needs of YACS.”
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“The lack of trained providers (Koffel et al., 2018) is a barrier to access.”
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“…on literature examining clinician-related barriers to CBT-I utilisation, many clinicians seek to treat pain instead of insomnia despite their comorbidity, due to common beliefs among clinicians that insomnia is more of a symptom of pain rather than an independent condition (Koffel et al., 2018).”
Increasing Restorative Sleep Among Adults With Depressive Symptoms: A Quality Improvement Project
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“…recommended that the fi rst-line treatment for insomnia is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) rather than the more commonly used and risky prescribing of hypnotic medications, available by prescription or over the counter, to induce sleep (Koffel et al., 2018; Qaseem et al., 2016).”
Robotic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: rCBT
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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow”: reducing depression incidence and severity with dCBT-I
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Music, Arts and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Treat Sleep Disorders
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“Due to significant clinical benefits, cognitive behavioural therapy has not only become an important approach in the realm of sleep medicine: the American College of Physicians (ACP) even calls it the first-line treatment for insomnia, and ‘CBT-I’ has become a label [9].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Koffel, E., Bramoweth, A. D., & Ulmer, C. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Koffel, Erin
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2018-04-04
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 955-962
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC5975165
- OpenAlex
- W2795657325
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 66 · 2025: 70 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 2.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- University of Minnesota
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
- Keywords
- cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, insomnia, barriers to treatment access, primary care referral, behavioral sleep medicine, sleep screening, patient engagement, treatment beliefs, implementation research, guideline-concordant care, hypnotic dependence
- MeSH terms
- Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Primary Health Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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