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Insomnia App Sleepio Wins startup Competition at WIRED Health
Published May 6, 2014 | Wired UK
After using a book by sleep expert Colin Espie to successfully treat himself for insomnia, Sleepio cofounder Peter Hames convinced the author to help him create a self-administered CBT app. They then carried out the first ever placebo-controlled randomised trial of such a treatment, which found users falling asleep 50 per cent faster within weeks.
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Espie CA; Kyle SD; Williams C; Ong JC; Douglas NJ; Hames P; Brown JSL. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia disorder delivered via an automated media-rich web application. SLEEP 2012;35(6):769-781.
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