A study involving more than 7,000 NHS patients and overseen by a team of Oxford doctors found that an online program helped patients sleep better than face-to-face therapy did. This six-week digital treatment, named Sleepio, helped people with insomnia gain an average of six more hours of sleep, reducing the anxiety and depression that causes many cases of insomnia. The success of Sleepio has interesting implications: with today’s high demand for conventional cognitive behavior therapy, hundreds of people have to wait in long lines for appointments with a very limited number of qualified therapists. By going online, programs like Sleepio could tackle and eventually eliminate this “costly and dangerous treatment gap.”

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