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Sleep is intrinsically linked to mental health, with those with mental illness more likely to require support in attaining adequate sleep. Recently, the College of Psychiatrists in Ireland\u2019s REFOCUS committee has sought to co-design an information leaflet for those with mental illness detailing the latest recommendations from the literature regarding sleep for this population, regardless of whether or not they take psychotropic medications. Given the rapidly expanding research focus on this topic, there are many published systematic reviews on the subject. As such, this proposed umbrella review seeks to collate the existing qualitative-based systematic reviews into sleep and mental illness and synthesise them in order to draw out the key recommendations that can be used by the committee to co-design an information leaflet to be used in practice to support service users with sleep disturbance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method and analysis<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This proposed review aims to explore how service users of mental health services experience sleep with and without the medication used to treat mental illness. An umbrella review that is compliant with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) is proposed. Search terms are stated, and a variety of databases<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>(Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus) will be searched. 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