Sleeping well with cancer: A systematic review of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in cancer patients

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 1113-1123

  Garland, Sheila N ^a   Johnson, Jillian A ^b   Savard, Josee ^c   Gehrman, Philip ^a   Perlis, Michael ^a   Carlson, Linda ^d   Campbell, Tavis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; CBT I; Insomnia; Quality of life; Sleep; Survivors; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOOD; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84903119906     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S47790     Document Type: Review

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