MedCity News September 1, 2021
Elise Reuter

The company recently finished a study showing patients in the U.K. who used both Sleepio’s app and therapy saw improvements in anxiety and depression compared to people who used therapy alone. But the study also had several limitations.

San Francisco-based company Big Health touted the results of a study that found its app for insomnia helped patients with anxiety and depression.

They compared more than 1,000 people in the U.K. who either used the app with therapy, or used therapy alone. Those who used the Sleepio app in conjunction with therapy saw a greater improvement in their anxiety or depression, according to results published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Specifically, 65 percent of Sleepio users saw their GAD-7...

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