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Light and Exercise in Night-shift Workers

NCT01767181 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 154

Last updated 2017-08-03

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Summary

EuRhythDia is a multicenter, controlled and randomized study. The aim of the study is to investigate the effects of 12 weeks of randomized timed light therapy or timed physical exercise as a chronotherapeutic lifestyle intervention on markers of central and peripheral circadian rhythms and cardiometabolic function in healthy night shift workers.

Conditions

  • Healthy Night Shift Workers

Interventions

OTHER

Intensive light therapy

Light therapy will be applied by a Lumie Brazil fluorescent tube light box (10.000 lux) during the night shifts for 12 consecutive weeks

OTHER

Exercise

Physical exercise will be performed in a supervised environment on the days of the night shifts, either before the start of the shift (defined as a time period beginning no earlier than 2 hours before the start of the shift) or after the end of the night shift (defined as a time period ending no longer than 2 hours after the end of the night shift)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rainer Böger, MD · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-28
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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