# Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management (CISSM)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2020 · $476,015

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – OVERVIEW
The mission of the Center for Innovations in Sleep Self-Management (CISSM) is to advance nursing
science through the development, testing, and implementation of self-management interventions that use
technology to assist adults and children with chronic illnesses to sleep better and simultaneously improve
health, well-being, and quality of life. Sleep deficiency (e.g., as in disrupted sleep, an inadequate amount of,
or poor quality sleep) is common in chronic illness and directly contributes to decrements in daytime function,
health related quality of life, increased health care utilization,1,2 and is associated with increased morbidity and
mortality.3,4 Often adults and children with chronic illness, who report poor quality of life, also have significant
sleep deficiency.5 Self-management intervention programs have been developed, tested and disseminated for
specific chronic illnesses such as diabetes,6 arthritis, HIV and back pain.7 Cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT)
for insomnia are effective for improving sleep in older adults with osteoarthritis with insomnia and pain.8
However, few of these studies incorporated new mobile technologies both to monitor self-management skills
and symptoms to address sleep deficiency, which is ubiquitous in chronic illnesses. Use of new mobile
technologies will facilitate the ability of individuals to self-monitor and visualize their sleep, symptoms, and
behavioral data and aid them in taking appropriate actions on potentially a daily basis. Development of
effective sleep self-management interventions that use technology will empower patients and their
caregivers and has the potential to improve health and health care outcomes of individuals living with a chronic
illness.
Building on the success of the previous University of Washington Center for Research on the Management of
Sleep Disturbances (UW-CRMSD, 2009-2014), the overall goal for the new CISSM is to provide research
resources to assist new and early career stage investigators to develop expertise in designing, testing, and
disseminating self-management interventions that integrate technology to improve sleep and impact health and
health care outcomes in the context of chronic illnesses. The innovation of CISSM is the development of
technology-assisted sleep self-management interventions. The aims of the CISSM are to:
1) Expand the number of new and early career stage nursing investigators conducting research on self-
 management interventions that use technology to improve sleep and daytime function in individuals living
 with a chronic illness.
2) Leverage existing and develop new resources and instruments for data sharing across studies, and
 integrate common data elements specific to self-management research into the Pilot Projects.
3) Integrate existing and design new technologies that increase the ability of individuals to self-manage their
 sleep with the goal of improving health outcomes.
4) Promote interdisciplinary collabo...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9955327
- **Project number:** 5P30NR016585-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Margaret McLean Heitkemper
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $476,015
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-03 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9955327

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9955327, Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management (CISSM) (5P30NR016585-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9955327. Licensed CC0.

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