Insomnia management for ageing employees with job stress

Abstract

Abstract. In Latvia, the number of aging employees suffering from sleep disorders caused by job stress and poor sleep hygiene is increasing. The non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment is prescribed for these employees in the sleep management. The aim of this research is to clarify the efficiency of using psychotherapy with learning and observing sleep hygiene, combined with the melatonergic drug during a six-week treatment course applied to 25 both male and female intellectual workers over 65 years suffering from insomnia caused by job stress. For the patients representing Group "A" cognitive hypnotherapy, intervention for improving coping with job stress and usage of the melatonergic drug was prescribed, while Group "B" patients received six weeks only drug. The severity of depressive episodes in employees was measured by MontgomeryÅsberg Depression Rating Scale, the level of anxiety was assessed by use Rosenberg SelfEsteem Scale. The results of the research show that insomnia patterns disappeared for 75% of women and 80% of men employees in Group A, but in Group B individuals, -only for 20% of women employees. The results acquired let concluding that the six-week treatment -cognitive hypnotherapy combined with melatonergic drug -is an effective treatment for aging workers suffering from sleep disorders.

Telemedicine and insomnia: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Another article [31] reported the use of the digital CBTI method. Finally, in 1 study [27], drug therapy combined with psychotherapy was used to improve insomnia. In this work, valdoxan examination was used on the first day and then cognitive hypnotherapy was used.…”

“…The search was conducted without a lower time-limit and until July 12, 2021, and accordingly 16 validated studies were obtained in the period from 2013 to 2021. Among them, one study was conducted in Sweden [12], one study in France [25], one study in the Netherlands [26], one study in Latvia [27], another study in Canada [28] and other studies in the United States [ 13,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Also, the research works were different in terms of implementation method, so that 8 studies [26,27,31,32, 34-37] by intervention method and, 8 other studies [12, 13, 25, 28-30, 33 , 38] were in the form of RCT (Table 1).…”

“…One work [27] examined the elderly with emotional sleep disorder, one study [31] chronic migraine, another study [30] among individuals with alcohol use disorder, and finally 1 study [37] sampled children with autism, and their mothers (Table 2).…”