Sleep Better Self Help Program: new research

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News Release:
US STUDY ENDORSES AUSTRALIAN SLEEP BETTER PROGRAM
An independent US study has scientifically tested the new Australian self-help
program "Sleep Better Without Drugs", and found that the success rate was a
remarkably high 83%.
The study was a doctoral dissertation carried out by Dr Julie Iler in the Graduate
School of Psychology of the prestigious American Psychiatric Association approved
Fuller Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, California.
Dr Iler's exhaustive controlled and supervised study took more than 12 months
to complete.
Dr Iler studied 48 volunteers ranging in age from 19 to 81 years, who had been
suffering from chronic insomnia for an average of 13 years.
Each person received in the mail a copy of the "Sleep Better Without Drugs"
self-help program, and used it at home.
"After the insomnia sufferers had used the program for just six weeks,"
said Dr Iler, "there were significant improvements in minutes to fall asleep,
minutes awake during the night, hours slept, quality of sleep, feeling upon
awakening, tiredness during the day, and sleeping overall."
Dr Iler's dissertation concluded: "The results of this study indicate that the
Australian self help program ' Sleep Better Without Drugs' is a clinically
effective and cost-effective treatment for insomnia sufferers".
This was the first US study of "Sleep Better Without Drugs". However, previous
studies carried out in Australia have come to the same conclusion.
In one of these studies, the author of the 4-6 week self help program, Melbourne
clinical psychologist and sleep specialist Dr David Morawetz, found that the
success rate was 80%. In another study, the success rate was 87% (see chart below).
"Sleep Better Without Drugs" is already being used by the Royal Australian College
of General Practitioners in several states to train family doctors in non-drug
ways of helping patients who suffer from insomnia.
The two largest Health Insurance Funds in Australia, Medibank Private and the Medical
Benefits Fund (MBF), both recommend "Sleep Better Without Drugs" to their members.
Dr Iler said "I received unsolicited letters from many participants thanking me for
enabling them to be among the first people in the US to use 'Sleep Better Without Drugs'".
More than 16,000 copies of the "Sleep Better Without Drugs" self help program have
been sold already in Australia, in the US and around the world through the Internet.
Better Sleep Study Results
Sources: Three Research Studies
Australia 1990 Morawetz, David, Sleep Better Without Drugs: a Four to Six Week Self-help Program
(a book and three CDs or audio cassettes), 11^th printing 2008, www.sleepbetter.com.au Melbourne, Australia (Appendix A), (Success rate 80%).
USA 1997 Iler, Julie, "Efficacy of a Nonpharmacological Intervention for Insomnia: an Empirical Investigation." Doctoral dissertation, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, California, 1997. (Success rate 83%).

Australia 2000 Morawetz, David, "Depression and Insomnia: Which Comes First?" Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology, 3, 1, 2001 pp.19-24. Go to www.sleepbetter.com.au, and click on Depression/Insomnia. Also in Sleep Research Online, 5,2,2003 pp 77-81. http://www.sro.org/2003/Morawetz/77/.
(Success rate 87%).

A summary of the independent U.S. study follows.
Abstract
Efficacy of a Non-Pharmacological Invention for Insomnia: an Empirical
Investigation
Dr Julie Iler, Ph.D.
The subjects were 48 volunteers, aged 19-81 years, who had been suffering
from chronic insomnia for a mean of 13 years. Each person received in the mail
a copy of the self -help program "Sleep Better Without Drugs" (a book and three
audio cassettes), and used it at home for six weeks. Subjects had no contact with
any doctor or therapist. They reported daily sleep diaries to voice mail for six weeks,
answered questionnaires about their sleep before and after treatment, and were
compared with a waiting list control. The results were analysed using ANCOVA
(analysis of covariance), ANOVA (analysis of variance) and two-tailed t tests.
The sleep parameters on which significant improvements were obtained by 80-83%
of subjects were: Minutes to fall asleep, minutes awake during the night,
hours slept, quality of sleep, feeling upon awakening, tiredness during the day,
and sleeping overall.
The results of this study indicate that the Australian self-help program "Sleep
Better Without Drugs" is a clinically effective and cost-effective treatment for
patients who suffer from insomnia and sleeping problems.

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- - - - - -	*News Release:* US STUDY ENDORSES AUSTRALIAN SLEEP BETTER PROGRAM An independent US study has scientifically tested the new Australian self-help program "Sleep Better Without Drugs", and found that the success rate was a remarkably high 83%. The study was a doctoral dissertation carried out by Dr Julie Iler in the Graduate School of Psychology of the prestigious American Psychiatric Association approved Fuller Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, California. Dr Iler's exhaustive controlled and supervised study took more than 12 months to complete. Dr Iler studied 48 volunteers ranging in age from 19 to 81 years, who had been suffering from chronic insomnia for an average of 13 years. Each person received in the mail a copy of the "Sleep Better Without Drugs" self-help program, and used it at home. "After the insomnia sufferers had used the program for just six weeks," said Dr Iler, "there were significant improvements in minutes to fall asleep, minutes awake during the night, hours slept, quality of sleep, feeling upon awakening, tiredness during the day, and sleeping overall." Dr Iler's dissertation concluded: "The results of this study indicate that the Australian self help program ' Sleep Better Without Drugs' is a clinically effective and cost-effective treatment for insomnia sufferers". This was the first US study of "Sleep Better Without Drugs". However, previous studies carried out in Australia have come to the same conclusion. In one of these studies, the author of the 4-6 week self help program, Melbourne clinical psychologist and sleep specialist Dr David Morawetz, found that the success rate was 80%. In another study, the success rate was 87% (see chart below). "Sleep Better Without Drugs" is already being used by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in several states to train family doctors in non-drug ways of helping patients who suffer from insomnia. The two largest Health Insurance Funds in Australia, Medibank Private and the Medical Benefits Fund (MBF), both recommend "Sleep Better Without Drugs" to their members. Dr Iler said "I received unsolicited letters from many participants thanking me for enabling them to be among the first people in the US to use 'Sleep Better Without Drugs'". More than 16,000 copies of the "Sleep Better Without Drugs" self help program have been sold already in Australia, in the US and around the world through the Internet.

	Sources:	Three Research Studies
	Australia 1990	Morawetz, David, *Sleep Better Without Drugs: a Four to Six Week Self-help Program* (a book and three CDs or audio cassettes), 11^th printing 2008, www.sleepbetter.com.au Melbourne, Australia (Appendix A), (Success rate 80%).
	USA 1997	Iler, Julie, "Efficacy of a Nonpharmacological Intervention for Insomnia: an Empirical Investigation." Doctoral dissertation, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, California, 1997. (Success rate 83%).
	Australia 2000	Morawetz, David, "Depression and Insomnia: Which Comes First?" *Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology, 3, 1, 2001 pp.19-24. Go to www.sleepbetter.com.au, and click on Depression/Insomnia. Also in Sleep Research Online, 5,2,2003 pp 77-81. http://www.sro.org/2003/Morawetz/77/. (Success rate 87%*).
	A summary of the independent U.S. study follows. Abstract Efficacy of a Non-Pharmacological Invention for Insomnia: an Empirical Investigation Dr Julie Iler, Ph.D. The subjects were 48 volunteers, aged 19-81 years, who had been suffering from chronic insomnia for a mean of 13 years. Each person received in the mail a copy of the self -help program "Sleep Better Without Drugs" (a book and three audio cassettes), and used it at home for six weeks. Subjects had no contact with any doctor or therapist. They reported daily sleep diaries to voice mail for six weeks, answered questionnaires about their sleep before and after treatment, and were compared with a waiting list control. The results were analysed using ANCOVA (analysis of covariance), ANOVA (analysis of variance) and two-tailed t tests. The sleep parameters on which significant improvements were obtained by 80-83% of subjects were: Minutes to fall asleep, minutes awake during the night, hours slept, quality of sleep, feeling upon awakening, tiredness during the day, and sleeping overall. The results of this study indicate that the Australian self-help program "Sleep Better Without Drugs" is a clinically effective and cost-effective treatment for patients who suffer from insomnia and sleeping problems.