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First published in Psychiatry Weekly, Volume 8, Issue 9, April 22, 2013

A recent study, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy, used a daily diary approach to analyze perceived control over sleep, coping with sleeplessness, and subjective sleep in 45 adults with chronic insomnia. Perceived control over sleep was a significant predictor of reported sleep quality, although perceived control was also predictive of next-day accommodative coping in those with greater chronicity. (Accommodative coping has been described elsewhere as “flexibly adjusting one’s goals in response to a persistent problem.”) Accomodative coping was, in fact, associated with worsened mood during the following day, with no apparent benefits in sleep quality, and should therefore be discouraged, the authors wrote. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796713000363

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