Chronotherapy Randomized Controlled Trial
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Official title
Adjunct Total Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Phase Advance, and White Light Therapy Vs. Partial Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Phase Delay, and Amber Light Therapy as Adjunctive Treatments in Acutely Suicidal and Depressed Inpatients.
Brief summary
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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
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02176824
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 13 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Total Sleep deprivation, Sleep Phase Advance, and Bright Light Therapy Behavioral
- Partial Sleep deprivation, Sleep Phase Delay, and Low amber light. Behavioral
- Treatment as usual Other
Behavioral · Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2014
- Primary completion
- Apr 6, 2016
- Completion
- Apr 6, 2016
- Last update posted
- May 29, 2019
2014 – 2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical University of South Carolina | Charleston | South Carolina | 29401 | — |
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