Televised insomnia course (Netherlands)
1990s Dutch television programme that taught a behavioural self-help course for insomnia to a mass audience, one of the first attempts to deliver insomnia treatment through mass media.
- Years
- 1995–now
- Country
- Netherlands
- Topic
- Sleep
- Asks people to
- Start
- Strategy
- Self efficacy
- Channel
- PrintTV
- Audience
- Adults
Evidence
ObservationalUnknown
Evaluated in Social Science & Medicine (1997); abstract not available in OpenAlex, so results not yet recorded.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Dutch broadcaster and academic partners Academic, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- The treatment of insomnia through mass media, the results of a televised behavioural training programme evaluation · 1997 · DOI 10.1016/s0277-9536(97)00041-5 · PMID 9381235
Research notes
Country inferred, year approximate; read the paper (Oosterhuis & Klip 1997) for results. Found through OpenAlex (October 2026 sleep pass, see docs/sleep-campaigns-openalex.md). Findings paraphrased from abstracts; check the paper before quoting a number.
Record cases/dutch-televised-insomnia-course.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign