More Sleep: Pain Response to Longer Sleep

The Pennsylvania State University (PENNSTATE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain; Sleep

Treatments: Behavioral: Sleep extension

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05816434

STUDY00022196

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is being done to find out whether extending sleep for at least an hour per night, seven days a week, predicts a higher tolerance and a higher threshold for pain. This is a 21-day study. Participants will be asked to wear sleep- and heart- monitoring watches. Pressure pain and cold pain will be measured at study visits.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 18 to 24 (inclusive) years of age at enrollment
2. Fluent English speaker and reader
3. Willing to refrain from initiating new therapeutic interventions (e.g., medication; behavioral) designed to target sleep or pain for the duration of study participation

Exclusion criteria

1. Diagnosed with a sleep disorder
2. Diagnosed with a pain disorder
3. Has experienced a cold-related injury frostbite or has any other nerve damage to the feet
4. Has a history of injury to any of the muscular measurement sites for pain (I.e. shoulder, jaw, forearm)
5. Diagnosed with hypertension or cardiovascular disease
6. Evidence of hypertension
7. Diagnosed serious mental health disorder or substance use disorder
8. Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for sleep
9. Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for pain
10. Personal health history of traumatic brain injury
11. Pregnant
12. Current smoker

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Sleep Extension

Experimental group

Description:

1 week of \>1 hour increased time in bed

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sleep extension

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Sustained sleep behavior