• Professor A. Niroshan Siriwardena, Professor of Primary & Pre-Hospital Health Care, Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU), University of Lincoln
• Professor Shaun Lawson, Professor of Social Computing, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln
• Professor Kevin Morgan, Professor of Gerontology,School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University
• Dr Kate Cavanagh, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology,School of Psychology, University of Sussex
• Dr Zowie Davy, Senior Lecturer, CaHRU, University of Lincoln
• Dr Conor Linehan, Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln
• Jo Middlemass, Research Fellow, CaHRU, University of Lincoln.

• To explore patient and professional perspectives, attitudes, expectations and beliefs towards online health care programmes.
• Explore participants’ preferences for content, style and information disclosure to health professionals or fellow sufferers.
• Identify those barriers and facilitators to accessing, using and adhering CCBT-I.

• Qualitative focus groups and semi-structured interviews with 23 health professionals and 28 patients.

• There was a need to be able to trust the programme; the patient-professional relationship and the online peer support. The CCBT-I programme should ideally be used within any on-going treatment rather than as a ‘stand-alone’ tool. Any outcomes and progress being discussed with the patients clinician.
• Any CCBT-I programme needed to be interactive, individualised and easily navigable.

• Middlemass J, Davy Z, Cavanagh K, Linehan C, Morgan K, Lawson S, Siriwardena AN. Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study of service user and primary health care professional perspectives. British Journal of General Practice 2012;62: e840-850. doi:10.3399/bjgp12X659321.

• Davy Z, Middlemass J, Siriwardena AN. Patients’ and clinicians’ experiences and perceptions of the primary care management of insomnia: qualitative study. Health Expectations 2013 early online DOI: 10.1111/hex.12119.

Conference presentations

• Middlemass J, Siriwardena AN, Davy Z, Cavanagh K, Linehan C, Morgan K, Lawson S. Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study of service user and primary health care professional perspectives. SAPC 41st Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow 3-4 October 2012.

• Siriwardena AN, Middlemass J, Davy Z, Cavanagh K, Linehan C, Morgan K,  Lawson S. Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study of service user and multiprofessional primary health care perspectives. The Future of Primary Healthcare in Europe IV, Gothenburg 3-4 October 2012.

• Integrating on-line communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia, SAPC Regional Conference, March 2012

The results of the interview study were incorporated into an innovative online CCBT-I package, Sleepful (http://www.sleepful.me/), designed by the ENACT study team based in the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln and the Clinical Sleep Research Unit at Loughborough University.

The impact from this work and our research on insomnia and hypnotic drugs more generally is summarised at the REST project website, was presented in a case study to REF2014, Improving the primary care management of insomnia, and publicised in the university research showcase, ‘Improving treatment for insomnia sufferers‘.