Delegate: Li Chiu Kong Family Sleep Assessment Unit, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Delegate Short Bio: Sleep Assessment Unit (SAU) is established in 1986 and is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. SAU provides professional training to clinicians and technicians in sleep medicine and technology in Hong Kong and from overseas. SAU also handles referral cases and conducts sleep assessments for patients from children to elderly with various sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea syndrome, narcolepsy, sleepwalking, and movement disorder such as rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder. To ensure quality assessment services and treatments, SAU has upgraded its equipment to meet with standards of international research and services, this benefiting more patients with sleep disorders. In addition, SAU not only provides clinical service, but also highly commit to promote sleep health in the community. The unit has received charity donations to provide healthy sleep and provide support to citizen who suffer from sleep problems.
Scope of Activity: Campaign
Activity: We have launched a large-scale community sleep health project named “Jockey Club Sleep Well project” with collaboration with five local NGOs (Christian Family Service Center, Hong Kong Sheung Kung Hui Welfare Council, The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong, St. James’ Settlement, United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service) to provide sleep support to locals since 2023. Each year, we conduct different activities in March to celebrate “world sleep day” and raise awareness of the importance of sleep via a variety of activities. Below are the activities that we have conducted in Mar 2026.
World Sleep Day 2026 Public education talks
A series of educational talks were conducted with collaboration with different organizations to promote sleep health in the community. In total, more than 120 participants joined the talks and learned more about sleep health.
1. Nightmare and IRT Public Webinar
A professional talk focusing on imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) and nightmares for the public in Hong Kong. During the talk, sleep therapist, Ms. Reyane Ao educated participants about the how dream journaling helps with sleep health, and the general theory of IRT. Through the talk, participants have learnt the relationship between dreaming and sleep cycles, as well as better idea to improve nightmares.
2. Sleep Health and Related Myths Talk
Our partnered NGO, St. James’ Settlement collaborated with local organizations, “Health in Action” and ELCHK Pre-school Education, to share knowledge regarding sleep health and related myths.
3. Sleep Health Online Talk
Shared knowledge on healthy sleep and introduced our platform’s services and WSD initiatives. The talk targeting audiences who want to learn more about healthy sleep knowledge or have sleep problems.
These talks aimed to educate participants about the prevalence of sleep disorders in Hong Kong, provide valuable resources, and improve general knowledge about sleep health.
“Dream Sketchbook” AI platform
We have developed an AI tool, “Dream Sketchbook” to provide a platform for experiencing IRT and dream journaling. Users are able to record their dreams, and the sketchbook will generate a comic according to the content of the dream. However, if it is a bad dream or nightmare, the sketchbook will guide the user to rewrite their dream.
The platform works as a trial experience of IRT and through the platform, users can have a better idea of how IRT works and are encouraged to maintain the habit of dream journaling to improve sleep health.
Total number of usages: 228
Total number of dreams collected: 153
Total number of views of the AI platform promotion: 34,998
In-person workshop and booth
We conducted several educational and informative booths to promote sleep health:
• “Have A Nice Dream” – Caring Day booth: Participants can differentiate common myths about sleep health information. Over 260 participants have reached out to the booth and learnt more about sleep health information.
• “Music Booth”- Education Day booth: Our collaborated NGO, St. James’ Settlement shared techniques on enhancing sleep through music. In total, there were 268 participants approached the booth.
World Sleep Day 2026 Media Exposure
To promote World Sleep Day 2026 and increase awareness of sleep health in Hong Kong, we have also engaged with two local media. One from the broadcast program, one is the social media platform.
• Participated in the radio programme RTHK’s programme “Life is Love” co-organised by Radio Television Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Council of Social Service to share insights on sleep health from the perspectives of a clinical psychologist and a sleep coach, and introduced the initiatives of WSD.
• Accepted an interview with the Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ) in the weeks leading up to World Sleep Day, which was released on the eve of World Sleep Day and discussed sleep issues among young people, aiming to raise public awareness of World Sleep Day.
Summary of our reaches are as follows:
No. of participants attended the professional talks: 120+
No. of participants joined the booths and AI platform: 750+
Number of views of social media posts responding to World Sleep Day including for Dream Sketchbook AI platform: 57,695
Number of daily average circulation of HKEJ newspapers with which we engaged in the aforementioned interview: 30K+
Number of subscribers on the YouTube channel broadcasting RTHK, with which we accepted their programme ‘”Life is Love”’ interview: ~1.17M
Location: Hong Kong
Date of Activity: March 2026
