Abstract
BackgroundInsomnia can significantly affect students’ learning performance. Researchers have indicated the importance and challenge of coping with insomnia using nondrug treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia. However, it is easy for the traditional CBT for insomnia to be interrupted owing to the overly lengthy period of sleep therapy. Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies are known to be an effective approach for helping students improve their time management, as well as their ability to set learning goals and adopt learning strategies.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to propose a mobile sleep-management learning system integrated with SRL strategies and CBT.MethodsA total of 18 undergraduate students from a university in northern Taiwan participated in the 2-week experiment of using this sleep-management system.ResultsThe experimental results showed that the proposed approach was useful and easy for students to use. In addition, the number of students with insomnia significantly decreased; that is, the proposed approach could help students improve their sleep quality and cultivate better sleeping habits, which is important for them to enhance their learning efficiency.ConclusionsWith the assistance of this proposed approach, students can plan their daily life by setting goals, applying strategies, monitoring their life habits process, and modifying strategies to cultivate good learning and healthy lifestyle habits.Trial RegistrationGovernment Research Bulletin MOST104-3011-E038-001; https://www.grb.gov.tw/search/planDetail? id=11568383&docId=467988 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/73MnPHNri)
Highlights
Sleep problems, especially insomnia, affect many people in their daily life
A paired t test was used to investigate the differences between the pre- and postquestionnaires of the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) to identify whether there was any improvement in their sleep quality (Table 1)
Scale 6, “How NOTICEABLE to others do you think your sleep problems are in terms of impairing the quality of your life?” shows that the mean of the scores decreased when comparing the pre- and postquestionnaires, indicating that participants’ sleep problems http://mhealth.jmir.org/2018/10/e11557/
Summary
Background Sleep problems, especially insomnia, affect many people in their daily life. It is found that >25% of adults experience insomnia [1] They indicated that insomnia has a negative impact on both health and psychological well-being. Researchers argued that sleep problems such as sleep disturbances are highly associated with several issues such as psychological demands, low recognition, low social support, perception of danger, emotional demands, and work-life imbalance [2]. Researchers have indicated the importance and challenge of coping with insomnia using nondrug treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia. It is easy for the traditional CBT for insomnia to be interrupted owing to the overly lengthy period of sleep therapy. Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies are known to be an effective approach for helping students improve their time management, as well as their ability to set learning goals and adopt learning strategies
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