The Light Heart Study: Daily Light Box Use for Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Stage B Heart Failure
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Conditions studied: Depression, Stage B Heart Failure
In brief
The Light-Heart study is a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial investigating the effects of bright white light (BWL) therapy on depressive symptoms, quality of life, and functioning in patients with Stage B heart failure. The study is a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of 8 weeks of morning BWL therapy compared with morning dim red light (DRL) treatment in older (60 years or older) 122 Stage B (early, asymptomatic) HF patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02691000
- Run by
- University of California, San Diego
- People needed
- 122
- Starts
- 2015-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-10-27
Who can join
Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- age ≥ 60 years
- Written informed consent
- BDI score ≥ 10
- Stage B heart failure diagnosis
- no antidepressant pharmacotherapy or on stable dose of antidepressant (>8 weeks)
- on stable dose of cardiac medications (>8 weeks)
You may not qualify if…
- self-reported history of bipolar disorder
- psychiatric diagnoses by Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) (ie; bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major neurocognitive disorder)
- serious suicide or homicide risk (outpatient care judged unsafe)
- recent initiation or change of dose in antidepressant or cardiac medications (within past 8 weeks)
- current use of supplements with putative effects on mood or sleep (e.g St. John's Wort, melatonin)
- recent initiation of evidence based psychotherapy for mood
- prior use of BWL therapy
- unstable medical illness requiring hospitalization
- uncontrolled seizure disorder
- retinopathies
- macular degeneration
- shift work
Where it is running
- University of California, San Diego — La Jolla, California, United States (enrolling)
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