Status:

COMPLETED

Light for Renal Transplant Recipients Having a Sleep-Wake Dysregulation

Lead Sponsor:

University of Basel

Collaborating Sponsors:

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Conditions:

Renal Disease

Sleep Disorders

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

EARLY_PHASE1

Brief Summary

Sleep-wake dysregulation is a disturbance in the roughly 24-hour cycle of the circadian rhythm. Well known disorders presenting a sleep-wake dysregulation are seasonal affective disorder, jet lag and ...

Detailed Description

This research project has three phases: The first phase is a cross sectional survey including all patients transplanted in Basel, Bern and in Zurich speaking German and transplanted at least 6 months...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • For phase 1: all renal transplant recipients transplanted at the University Hospital Basel, Bern and Zurich, speaking German and having an actual address on the follow-up list of the ambulatory center list.
  • Renal transplant recipients who have poor Sleep quality and /or daytime sleepiness (phase 1: Cross sectional survey study) and had a Sleep assessment (phase 2: Cross sectional diagnostic interview study)
  • Renal transplant recipients who participated in Phase 1 and 2 that were diagnosed with sleep wake dysregulation
  • Renal transplant recipients with signed written informed consent.

Exclusion

  • RTx recipients, who participated in phase 2, will be excluded in the study if
  • they were diagnosed with sleep disorders as parasomnia, breathing disorders or movement disorders.
  • they were diagnosed with alcohol or substance abuse
  • they are blind or suffer from a severe vision impairment (cataract), which possibly limits the effect of the light intervention and patients taking photosensitive medications

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2010

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 1 2013

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01256983

Start Date

October 1 2010

End Date

July 1 2013

Last Update

March 3 2014

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