Sleep to Activate Mood Promotion (STAMP)

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Quality; Depression

Treatments: Device: Re-Timer glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02413294

HUM00094645

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are aiming to examine the acceptability and feasibility of a portable bright light therapy instrument to improve sleep disturbance in a preventive intervention for depression. The investigators will conduct an intervention that trials the use of bright light glasses called "re-timers" as a preventive intervention in older adults with sleep disturbance and subsyndromal symptoms of depression.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 65 years of age or older
• 6 or greater on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
• A score of 5 to 9 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Depression Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Active suicidal ideation
• Presence of mania or bipolar disorder
• Presence of an eye disease
• Prescription of a photosensitizing medication
• Having previously had eye surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

Bright Light Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Before the bright light intervention is initiated (and during the intervention), participants will wear two wrist bands which measure sleep quality and activity levels- the Fitbit and actigraphy watches. These will be worn for two weeks to assess individuals' baseline levels of sleep quality and will continue to be worn during the intervention. Following the baseline period, the re-timer glasses will be introduced and worn for a period of 30 to 50 minutes a day for two weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Re-Timer glasses