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Chronotherapy Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02176824 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2019-05-30

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Summary

Chronotherapy is a term that describes therapeutic alterations of sleep wake cycles. Different variations of sleep deprivation, set sleep wake schedules, and types of light therapy have demonstrated efficacy in rapidly treating depression, and suicidal thinking. This study seeks to explore the effect of two different chronotherapuetic protocols on acutely depressed and suicidal inpatients admitted to the Medical University of South Carolina

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Total Sleep deprivation, Sleep Phase Advance, and Bright Light Therapy

Sleep deprivation, Sleep phase advance, and Bright light therapy

BEHAVIORAL

Partial Sleep deprivation, Sleep Phase Delay, and Low amber light.

OTHER

Treatment as usual

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University of South Carolina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gregory Sahlem, MD · Medical University of South Carolina

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-01
Primary Completion
2016-04-07
Completion
2016-04-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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