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Daily Morning Blue Light Therapy Improves Daytime Sleepiness, Sleep Quality, and Quality of Life Following a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Source :
- Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 35:E405-E421
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Objective Identify the treatment effects of 6 weeks of daily 30-minute sessions of morning blue light therapy compared with placebo amber light therapy in the treatment of sleep disruption following mild traumatic brain injury. Design Placebo-controlled randomized trial. Participants Adults aged 18 to 45 years with a mild traumatic brain injury within the past 18 months (n = 35). Main outcome measures Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory II, Rivermead Post-concussion Symptom Questionnaire, Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire, and actigraphy-derived sleep measures. Results Following treatment, moderate to large improvements were observed with individuals in the blue light therapy group reporting lower Epworth Sleepiness Scale (Hedges' g = 0.882), Beck Depression Inventory II (g = 0.684), Rivermead Post-concussion Symptom Questionnaire chronic (g = 0.611), and somatic (g = 0.597) symptoms, and experiencing lower normalized wake after sleep onset (g = 0.667) than those in the amber light therapy group. In addition, individuals in the blue light therapy group experienced greater total sleep time (g = 0.529) and reported improved Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire scores (g = 0.929) than those in the amber light therapy group. Conclusion Daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and sleep disruption are common following a mild traumatic brain injury. These findings further substantiate blue light therapy as a promising nonpharmacological approach to improve these sleep-related complaints with the added benefit of improved postconcussion symptoms and depression severity.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Light therapy
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medicine.medical_specialty
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Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
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Humans
Medicine
Brain Concussion
Depression (differential diagnoses)
business.industry
Epworth Sleepiness Scale
Rehabilitation
Beck Depression Inventory
Actigraphy
Phototherapy
Rivermead post-concussion symptoms questionnaire
Quality of Life
Physical therapy
Neurology (clinical)
Sleep onset
Sleep
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business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08859701
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5ec175f8e8f1c354da7c190d9a96bc90