Authors' response to Atee et al

We thank you for the opportunity to respond to the comments raised in Atee et al.’s letter to the editor [1] and thank Mr Atee and his colleagues for their interest in our paper [2]. 1) Mr Atee et al. are concerned about the confounding effect of prescribed psychotropic medications on sleep outcomes. In our paper, we had shown that participants’ medication usage, as measured by the Medication Quantification Scale-III (MQS-III), at baseline was similar in both the intervention and control groups (Table 1). While we acknowledge that medication can have an impact on both groups, in this instance we believe that medication use had minimal impacts on the study outcomes. However, future larger-scale studies should be mindful of this potential issue and, if necessary, appropriately adjust for its effect during data analysis.