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Enhancement of Sleep With Wearables

NCT03420677 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 33

Last updated 2021-03-03

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Summary

Sleep, specifically deep sleep, plays a central role in healthy brain function, cardio-vascular processes, mood and quality of life. Auditory stimulation during one night of sleep has previously been shown to improve deep sleep and along with memory formation in both young and older adults. Yet, it remains unclear whether long-term auditory stimulation considerably improves sleep quality over longer time periods and how it affects daytime functioning such as cognition, mood, quality of life and peripheral functions (e.g. cardio-vascular). Due to the importance of deep sleep for brain and body and the presence of many conditions that involve reduced deep sleep (e.g. ageing) assessing the beneficial impact of long-term sleep enhancement and its consequences is of central interest.This study will assess the effect of auditory stimulation over two weeks (interleaved with a two weeks washout period) in a cohort of healthy young and older adults using portable recording and stimulation devices.

Conditions

  • Sleep

Interventions

DEVICE

Application of tones

During NREM sleep, tones (max. 60 dB) will be played using a portable, safe, in-home device. This device records biosignals (e.g. brain activity) and precisely times the tones during NREM sleep. It was developed and produced by the ETH Zurich and approved for use in this study by Swissmedic

DEVICE

No application of tones

This is the sham-control intervention; The device will only record biosignals but will not play tones.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
84 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-07
Primary Completion
2019-03-05
Completion
2020-10-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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