Cure8 research brief
Sleep disturbance is common in IBD and relates to disease activity, stress, anxiety, and circadian timing. There is high patient interest in sleep-focused testing and nonpharmacologic therapies but very low use of evidence-based treatments like CBT-I, indicating a gap in care.
Adults with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis; gastroenterologists and IBD care teams; sleep clinicians and behavioral therapists; researchers of sleep, circadian biology, and IBD outcomes.
This cross-sectional survey of 204 adults with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis found 76.5% reported poor sleep quality and 55.9% had clinically significant sleep disturbance.
Active disease, higher perceived stress, and anxiety were associated with greater odds of clinically significant sleep disturbance; morning or intermediate chronotype was associated with lower odds compared with evening chronotype.
Many participants described self-management for sleep (sleep hygiene, OTC remedies) and high interest in wearable monitoring, home-based testing, behavioral therapies, and light therapy, but very low prior use of CBT-I (0.5%).
The authors conclude sleep disturbance in IBD likely reflects interacting inflammatory, psychological, and circadian factors and that evidence-based therapies are underused.
Cross-sectional survey design limits causal inference. Findings are based on self-reported measures and an abstract-level article; interpret associations accordingly.
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