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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