Group treatment for insomnia.

Treatment as usual

Experimental: Group treatment of insomnia The intervention is a group treatment based on cognitive and behavioral changing methods. It is including seven sessions during 10 weeks. Each session last for 2 hours with a 20 minutes pause. The intervention includes psycho education about sleep. Methods as relaxation, coping with worry, sleep restriction, stimulus control, sleep hygiene, stress coping strategies, strategies for coping with daytime symptom, identify and reformulate negative and dysfunctional thoughts about sleep, daytime functioning and stress and strategies for reducing hypnotics.

Insomnia Severity Index (ISI)is a seven item self assessment scale measuring severity of insomnia symptoms during the last two weeks. The items asks about sleep disturbance, daytime functioning and worrying about sleep. The possibly response is 0 "None" 1 "Mild" 2 "Moderate" 3 "Severe" 4 "Very severe". The sum is added and 0-7 p grades the insomnia to "none clinically significant insomnia", 8-14 p "subtreshold insomnia", 15-21 p "moderate insomnia", 22-28 p "severe insomnia".

Measures fatigue symptoms in a seven item self assessment scale. Response from 1-7 points

Sleep log for every night during two weeks. The patient logs time going to bed, sleep latency, awakes during the night, time going up from bed in the morning, total sleep time, sleep quality graded from 1-5. ! is very bad and 5 is very good). Use of alcohol, hypnotics and herbs are noted