Non-pharmacological interventions for the elderly with psychogenic insomnia: A Scoping Review

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scoping review of Sleep improvement strategies for the elderly with psychogenic sleep disorders; scoping review is an effective way to answer a wide range of research questions and will therefore be able to outline psychogenic sleep intervention programs with a focus on negative emotions such as depression and anxiety and improvement of sleep Four team members work together to develop a rigorous search strategy, including three researchers with systematic and evidence-based training and a sleep expert, which makes our search strategy more professional The protocol is guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension to improve methodological rigor, identify limitations of existing interventions for psychogenic sleep disorders in the elderly, and describes a transparent approach to comprehensively identify literature on interventions for psychogenic sleep disorders in the elderly population, which increases reproducibility.