How does balneotherapy impact sleep and mood?
- Conditions
- Mental healthSleep qualityAlternative and Complementary Medicine - Other alternative and complementary medicineMental Health - Other mental health disorders
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12621000735853
- Lead Sponsor
- RMIT University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
Healthy volunteers aged 18-45, local to the testing site (living within 20 minutes drive).
•Unable to give informed consent
•A known mood state disorder (eg. anxiety/depression) and/or psychopharmacological medication, hypertensive medication within 4 weeks of recruitment.
•Sleeping problems/taking any sleep medications or supplements that may interfere with sleep.
•Caffeine or other addictions.
•Serious illness including: Rheumatic disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus.
•Abnormal blood pressure.
•Have undergone cancer treatment within 4 weeks of recruitment.
•Bathing within 2 weeks prior to the study.
•Shift workers: defined as those who work outside of generally perceived normal working hours.
•Holiday makers will be excluded for the likelihood their escape/getaway motivation skews sleep/relaxation/QoL data and they are considered more likely to drop-out.
•Allergic reaction to the PHS water.
•Claustrophobia.
•Pregnant or within lactation period.
•Epilepsy.
•Recent hospitalisation, surgery or antibiotic therapy.
•Need to travel across time zones two weeks before or during the study period.
•No evening baths at home post-intervention.
•Rheumatic diseases including arthritis, causing pain at night.
•Cortisone intake within 4 weeks prior to the study.
•Changes in dose rates of other medications up to 1 week before study entry.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method