Depression Clinical Trial
— Light-HeartOfficial title:
The Light Heart Study: Daily Light Box Use for Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Stage B Heart Failure
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.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 122 |
Est. completion date | September 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | September 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 60 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - 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) Exclusion Criteria: - 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 |
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | University of California, San Diego | La Jolla | California |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of California, San Diego | Retirement Research Foundation |
United States,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in depressive symptoms will be assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory. | baseline and at 8 week | No | |
Secondary | The Short Form (SF)-36 questionnaire will be used to assess QOL and subjective functioning. | Baseline and at 8 week | No |
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