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Abstract: Insomnia is a serious public health concern with substantial occupational health risks to the working population, with one in three workers in the UK being affected by sleep problems to some level, costing the UK economy around £36 billion every year due to loss of productivity in the workplace. This results in around 200,000 working days lost yearly with an estimated cost to industry rising steadily to £44 billion by 2030 if nothing is done about it. In this talk, I will present our latest mixed method work across two projects on preventative care and early interventions in the workplace for sleep problems and insomnia, and the development and initial testing of workplace-based psychological interventions for insomnia and wellbeing for shift work and non-shift work employees.

Bio: Dr Talar Moukhtarian is an assistant professor (research-track) at the Warwick Medical School (WMS), University of Warwick. With a PhD in Clinical Psychopathology, her research interests lie in the differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of mental health conditions. Her earlier research focused on adult ADHD, borderline personality disorder and transdiagnostic nosology across mental health conditions. More recently her focus has been in early interventions for mental health problems in a sustainable and scalable manner as well as novel ways of delivering interventions outside of the usual clinical settings. She’s been leading on the development and initial testing of workplace-based psychological interventions for a range of common disorders, including insomnia, depression, and anxiety.