More Sleep: Pain Response to Longer Sleep
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Sleep, Pain
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05816434
- Run by
- Penn State University
- People needed
- 36
- Starts
- 2024-03-18
- Expected to finish
- 2025-11-04
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-02-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 24. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 18 to 24 (inclusive) years of age at enrollment
- Fluent English speaker and reader
- Willing to refrain from initiating new therapeutic interventions (e.g., medication; behavioral) designed to target sleep or pain for the duration of study participation
You may not qualify if…
- Diagnosed with a sleep disorder
- Diagnosed with a pain disorder
- Has experienced a cold-related injury frostbite or has any other nerve damage to the feet
- Has a history of injury to any of the muscular measurement sites for pain (I.e. shoulder, jaw, forearm)
- Diagnosed with hypertension or cardiovascular disease
- Evidence of hypertension
- Diagnosed serious mental health disorder or substance use disorder
- Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for sleep
- Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for pain
- Personal health history of traumatic brain injury
- Pregnant
- Current smoker
Where it is running
- Pennsylvania State University — University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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