Digital Sleep Therapy to Reduce Pain and Increase Activity in Fibromyalgia

This trial is testing whether Sleepio, a digital cognitive behavioural therapy program for insomnia, can help people with fibromyalgia improve their sleep and become more physically active. The study is based on the idea that poor sleep and pain create a difficult cycle: when you sleep poorly, your pain gets worse, and when pain increases, sleep becomes even harder. By improving sleep with this online program, researchers hope to break that cycle and help people feel less pain and have more energy to move and exercise.

People with fibromyalgia often struggle with both severe pain and poor sleep, which fuel each other and make the condition worse. Current treatments don't always address both problems together, and many patients say that sleep problems prevent them from exercising—which is one of the most helpful treatments for fibromyalgia. This trial is testing whether fixing the sleep problem first could help unlock the ability to be more active and reduce pain.