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Efficacy of Daylight as Adjunctive Treatment in Patients With Depression

NCT04712968 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2022-08-10

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Summary

The aim of this study is to improve the treatment effect for outpatients with depression by adding regular daily morning daylight exposure to their treatment with antidepressants. Patients will wear a personal light tracker to keep them motivated. Our hypothesis is that patients daily exposed to morning daylight, as a supplement to standard treatment for depression, will achieve significantly higher antidepressant effect that patients receiving standard treatment alone. Furthermore, we hypothesize that they will experience improved well-being and sleep.

Conditions

  • Unipolar Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Regular exposure to morning daylight

Participants are asked to stay outside in morning daylight for minimum 30 minutes each day before 1 pm for 6 weeks. A specific plan for individual outdoor possibilities for daylight exposure is made (e.g. a walk, a stay in a park or in their garden, a bike trip). Furthermore a detailed instruction to the personal light tracker "LYS Button" and the matching "LYS Insight app" is provided. The "LYS Insight app" gives the user access to real-time insight of light stimulus. Further, the participants receive psycho-education on the connection between exposure to morning daylight and antidepressant effect. All participants in this group receive the intervention as add-on to usual treatment, which may comprise prescribed antidepressants, psychotherapy, including psycho-education and psychiatric care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mette Kragh, PhD · Department of Affective Disorders Arhus, University Hospital. Psychiatry

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-01
Primary Completion
2022-06-01
Completion
2022-06-01

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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