Effect of Dynamic Light Application on Performance of ICU Nurses (Tefflon)

Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Divided Attention; Sustained Selective Attention

Treatments: Other: dynamic light

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01831167

IC-JBZ-Tefflon

Details and patient eligibility

About

In two sessions of four days nurses will be exposed to dynamic lighting and normal (reference) lighting. Through the psychological tests T.O.D.A. (Test or divided attention) and T.O.S.S.A. (Test of sustained selective attention), then the focus tested. These two tests run both 5 times. The investigators also ask to fill out: 3 questionnaires, fatigue and mood, sleep and Questions of Life.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

ICU nurses working 32 hours/week or more

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

dynamic light

Experimental group

Description:

dynamic light

Treatment:

Other: dynamic light

reference

No Intervention group

Description:

normal light