Hypertension with unsatisfactory sleep health (HUSH): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Table 2 Intervention components

Intervention component	Intervention
Intervention component	BBTI	SHUTi	Usual care
Practices
EpicCare RRA system to enroll study patients	•	•	•
Education on recognition/treatment of insomnia	•	•	•
Health data collected via electronic health record (blood pressure, weight, medications)	•	•	•
Physicians
Education on insomnia; how to refer participants via RRA; interventions	•	•	•
Informed about patient diagnoses and treatment assignment	•	•	•
Receive report on patient sleep	•	•
Participants
Informed of insomnia diagnosis and randomization	•	•	•
Receive instructions on how to access intervention	•	•	•
Interventionist contact via telephone, web	•
Web-based education and therapy modules		•
Complete outcomes assessments at 9 weeks, 6 months, 12 months	•	•	•
Screening and assessments
Telephone screening and on-line informed consent	•	•	•
Baseline and follow-up assessments of patient-reported outcomes completed on-line	•	•	•
Home blood pressure monitoring	•	•	•
Interventions
Emmi educational video viewed on-line			•
Interventionist contact via telephone, web (4 total) for individualized behavioral sleep prescription	•
Self-guided, web-based educational and therapy modules (6 total) with individualized instruction		•
Feedback on initial assessment, UPMC treatment resources, and educational materials			•

BBTI brief behavioral treatment of insomnia, RRA research recruitment alert, SHUTi sleep healthy using the internet, UPMC University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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