Current Research

 

As researchers, we have been involved in a number of studies over many years. Below are our current projects as well as a selection of favourite papers.

 

Current Studies

• A Behavioural Therapy (BT) Sleep Intervention with Cognitive Components to Treat Insomnia in Rural NSW involving Practice Nurses: A Pilot Study

• Increasing adherence to Obstructive Sleep Apnea treatment with a health coaching intervention.

• The effect of melatonin on sleep onset time, sleep efficiency in the first third of the sleep episode, and sleep-related daytime impairments in people with delayed sleep phase disorder: a randomised controlled trial

• Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT) for chronic insomnia disorder: physiological, cognitive & objective sleep alterations after six weeks of therapy intervention - a pilot study

• An Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) study of the brain in insomnia disorder

• Profiling of Insomnia disorder in a sample of 100 participants

• Bartlett DJ, Paisley L, Desai A. Diagnosis and Treatment of Insomnia. Medicine Today. 2006; Aug 7(8): 14-18,20-1

• Desai AV, Wilsmore B, Bartlett DJ et al., The utility of the AusEd driving simulator in the clinical assessment of driver fatigue. Behav Res Methods. 2007, 39(3): 673-681

 

Publications

• Kempler, Bartlett, Miller & Sharpe. Do psychosocial sleep interventions improve infant sleep or maternal mood in the postnatal period? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Sleep Medicine Reviews (2015)

• Gamble A, D’Rozario A, Bartlett DJ, Williams S, Bin YS, Grunstein RR, Marshall NS. Adolescent Sleep Patterns and Night-Time Technology Use: Results of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Big Sleep Survey. PLoS ONE 9(11): e111700. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.011170

•  Cheung, Saini, Bartlett, Armour. Treating Insomnia: A review of Patient Perceptions towards Treatment.  Behavorial Sleep Medicine.  August 2014 (in press)

• Bartlett. Managing Insomnia: What we’ve learn’t in the last 10 years.  Cover Feature. In Psych, Australian Psychological Society; April 2014; 10-13

• Bartlett; Wong; Richards, Moy, Espie, Cistulli, Grunstein.  Increasing Adherence to Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) treatment with a Group Social Cognitive Therapy (SCT) treatment intervention: a randomised trial. Sleep, 2013; 36 (11):1647-1654.

• Bartlett, Biggs and Armstrong. Circadian rhythm disorders among adolescents: assessment and treatment options. Med J Aust 2013; 199 (8): 16-20. Supplement doi: 10.5694/mja13.10912

• Kempler, L., Sharpe, L & Bartlett, D. Sleep education during pregnancy for new mothers. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012 12: 155.

• Cheung, Bartlett, Armour & Saini. The Insomnia Patient Perspective, a narrative review. Behav Sleep Med., 2012; DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2012.694382

• Kempler, L. & Richmond, J. Effect of sleep on gross motor memory. Memory. 2012. 20(8), 907

• Bartlett, DJ  & Chang CL.  Managing Insomnia & Mood in General Practice; Medicine Today. 2011

• Kippist C, Wong K, Bartlett D, Saini B.  "How do pharmacists respond to complaints of acute insomnia? A simulated patient study.", Pharmacy World & Science, Accepted for publication, Oct 10, 2010

• Rimmer, Downie, Bartlett, Gralton, Salome. Sleep disturbance in persistent allergic rhinitis measured using actigraphy. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2009; 103:190-194

• Bartlett DJ, Marshall NS, Williams A, Grunstein RR. Predictors of primary medical care consultations for sleep disorders. Sleep Med 2008; 9:857-864

• Richards D, Bartlett DJ, Wong K, Malouff J, Grunstein RR. Increased adherence to CPAP with a group cognitive behavioural treatment intervention: A randomized trial. Sleep 2007; 30 (5): 635-640.