Brief Intervention for Sleep Medication Misuse Among Elderly
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital, Akershus
- Where
- Norway1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 120 people, planned
- Started
- 9 Oct 2023
- Planned end
- 30 Jun 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- BI (Brief Intervention)
- Record updated
- 15 November 2024
Who can take part
- Age
- 60 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Self-reported use of Z-hypnotics > 4 days per week and > 4 weeks
Who cannot take part
- diagnosis of dementia,
- diagnosis of psychosis,
- diagnosis of major depression,
- diagnosis of delirium,
- unable to give informed consent,
- insufficient Norwegian language capacity to complete tests
This trial has no sites in United States.
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Randomized controlled trial to evaluate effectiveness of behavioral Brief Intervention administered by General practitioners (GPs) versus business as usual on use of Z-hypnotics by elderly patients in primary care.
The 2 groups in the trial
- BI (Brief Intervention)Existing treatment, for comparison
Patients whose GPs have been taught the behavioral BI intervention aiming to reduce prolonged use of Z-hypnotics.
- BAU (Business as usual)No study treatment, for comparison
Patients whose GPs have not yet been taught the BI intervention. Patients only assessed in parallel with BI group by masked assessors using same instruments as for active comparator. This group also constitutes an open cross-over group to active intervention once the masked 6 months phase is completed.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Brief Intervention for Reducing Prolonged Use of Sleep Medication Among Elderly
- Publications
- Brief intervention for inappropriate z-hypnotics use in older adults: a before and after intervention study in primary care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care, 2026
- A brief intervention to discontinue inappropriate z-hypnotics use by older patients in primary care: a randomised controlled trial.BMC primary care, 2026
- Record updated
- 15 November 2024