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Study of Effects of Light on the Vigilance and Cognitive Performance Following a Night Without Sleep

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Healthy Volunteers
Interventions
Device: Energy-Light lamp
Device: Luminettes lamp
Other: control condition
Registration Number
NCT02478528
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Brief Summary

Sleep disorders are a major public health issue, affecting 1 in 6 French. The medical impact at the individual level but also social and economic level (loss of productivity, morbidity, mortality) emphasize the need for one hand, to improve the investigators' understanding of these disorders in order to develop appropriate therapeutic tools and on the other hand, to increase the investigators' support abilities of patients with these disorders.

The investigators' team of unity sleep from Strasbourg University Hospitals, in collaboration with the UPR 3212 CNRS team, is working on the development and adjustment of new concepts and tools to compensate the investigators' sleep debt in order to apply them to patients with sleep disorders and persons who face with sleep restriction.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
18
Inclusion Criteria
  • Man or woman
  • Age from 18 to 40 years
  • With a Body Mass Index (BMI) between 17 and 30 kg m-2
  • Healthy volunteer determined by clinical examination and psychological interview
  • Agreeing to abstain from caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, psychotropic drugs, cannabis or other drugs, the week before the start of Stage 2 of the study until the end of the study
  • Dated and signed informed consent
  • Subjet affiliated to a social security scheme
  • Subject has been informed about the results of the medical examination
Exclusion Criteria
  • Participation in other clinical trials in the month preceding the inclusion
  • Shift work in the year before inclusion
  • Cons-indications to the use of the medical device
  • Ocular disease
  • Unable to give informations to the subject (subject in an emergency situation, difficulties in understanding, ...)
  • Subjet under judicial protection
  • Subject under guardianship or curatorship
  • pregnancy
  • breastfeeding

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Experimentalcontrol condition-
ExperimentalEnergy-Light lamp-
ExperimentalLuminettes lamp-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Analysis of the circadian variation of melatonin and cortisol secretionCompare during the 3 sessions : energy-light lamp, luminettes lamp and control condition

cortisol and melatonin dosage

Analysis of the perception of fatigueCompare during the 3 sessions : energy-light lamp, luminettes lamp and control condition

Karolinska Sleepiness Scale 3 sessions :

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cognitive performanceCompare during the 3 sessions : energy-light lamp, luminettes lamp and control condition

neurobehavioral tests

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Unité du Sommeil - Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg

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Strasbourg, France

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