Table 2

Qualitative data: themes and quotations

Theme(Quotations)
Under-recognition of sleep difficulties
  • “I didn’t understand how important it was to get sleep’

  • “At the start I really didn’t think it was a problem I needed to share with the doctors…I was thinking I’m depressed, I’m this, I’m that…I never thought to say my sleep is gone’

Ruminations
  • “My problem is over analysing … in bed my brain keeps going; thinking about the worst case scenario … what’s going to happen the next day”.

  • “as soon as my head hits the pillow my head is going 90”

  • “found it useful to put a label on racing thoughts”

Clinical utility
Ease of use
  • “good basics”

  • “good to identify where the problem is”

  • “not too scientific”

Consistency
  • “consistency was the main issue”

  • “need to re-read the workbook to make it useful”

  • “I am glad to have the sleep workbook that I can look back on if my sleep deteriorated in the future”

Therapeutic Autonomy
  • “lots of different techniques … not everything applies”

  • “a customisation thing … focus on your problem rather than the others”

  • “sometimes one thing works and when I try it again it might not work … good to have a variety of things to try from the workbook”

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