Light as an Aid for Recovery in Psychiatric Inpatients

NCT02653040 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: QLIGHT
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 54
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate wether a naturalistic indoor light environment can improve sleep and mood in psychiatric inpatients

Conditions

Mental Illness

Keywords

Lighting; Inpatients; Recovery; Sleep

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Sleep quality on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

  Answers from questionnaires are assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Depressive symptoms on the Major depression inventory (MDI)

  Answers from questionnaires are assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

• Well-being on the World Health Organization measure of well-being (WHO-5)

  Answers from questionnaires are assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

• Qualitative assessment using a custom made questionnaire

  Answers from questionnaires are assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

• Sleep diary

  Answers from questionnaires are assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

Other Outcomes (3)

• Time to discharge

  Assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

• Involuntary restraints

  Assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

• Use of medication from logged activity in the electronic medical record

  Assessed through study completion, an average of 1 month, up to 6 months

Study Arms (2)

Dynamic lighting

EXPERIMENTAL

Indoor lighting with low-lux no-blue wavelengths at night.

Other: Dynamic lighting

Treatment as usual

NO INTERVENTION

Characterized by full white light with little variation through a day cyclus.

Interventions

Dynamic lighting OTHER

Intervention is rooms with light settings imitating natural light conditions with white light at day and low-lux no-blue light at night: 07am-10am: white light, increasing intensity 10am-07pm: white light, full intensity 07pm-11pm: no blue wavelength, low intensity 11pm-07am: no blue wavelength, very low intensity

Also known as: Illumination, lighting design, lighting environment

Dynamic lighting

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 68 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Admission

You may not qualify if:

• Inability to provide written consent
• Mania

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Aarhus: lead
• Aarhus University Hospital: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov

Risskov, Jylland, 8240, Denmark

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Bedrosian TA, Nelson RJ. Influence of the modern light environment on mood. Mol Psychiatry. 2013 Jul;18(7):751-7. doi: 10.1038/mp.2013.70. Epub 2013 May 28.

  PMID: 23711982 BACKGROUND

• LeGates TA, Fernandez DC, Hattar S. Light as a central modulator of circadian rhythms, sleep and affect. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2014 Jul;15(7):443-54. doi: 10.1038/nrn3743. Epub 2014 Jun 11.

  PMID: 24917305 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Interventions

Lighting

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Environment, Controlled; Environment; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Niels Okkels, MD

  Aarhus University Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 4, 2015
• First Posted: January 12, 2016
• Study Start: December 15, 2015
• Primary Completion: January 15, 2017
• Study Completion: March 15, 2018
• Last Updated: May 3, 2018

Record last verified: 2017-10

Locations

DK (1)