Sleep workshops: an alternative to medication.

After identifying numerous sleep disorders among its patients, the Preventive Medicine Center in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the Ain department, launched a series of sleep workshops. Over four sessions, each lasting three hours, professionals provided therapeutic sleep education supplemented by discussions, support groups, and relaxation exercises. The goal: to alleviate the anxiety of insomniacs through means other than medication. The results are positive, but the effects are limited due to the one-time nature of these workshops. Nevertheless, this is undoubtedly an approach worth developing.

Author(s): Bessias Henri-Pierre

Publishing year: 2007

Pages: 40-41

Men's Health, 2007, n° 388, p. 40-41

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