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Pilot Study to Examine Health Effects of Daylight Exposure on Dementia Patients

NCT03483896 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 83

Last updated 2019-03-29

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Summary

This study is designed to test the hypothesis that an intervention increasing exposure to daylight indoors will reduce depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms among people living with dementia in long term care facilities.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Daylight Intervention

Staff increased the daylight exposure of participants by taking them to the perimeter zone of a daylit room from 8:00 to 10:00 AM for socialization over a period of 12 weeks. The perimeter zone was defined to be the region of the room within 3 meters from windows. The intervention was administered each day (7 days / week) over the duration of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Southern California

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kyle Konis, Ph.D · University of Southern California

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-30
Primary Completion
2017-05-10
Completion
2017-06-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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