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Enhancement of Sleep With Wearables

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Sleep
Interventions
Device: Application of tones
Device: No application of tones
Registration Number
NCT03420677
Lead Sponsor
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Brief Summary

Sleep, specifically deep sleep, plays a central role in healthy brain function, cardio-vascular processes, mood and quality of life. Auditory stimulation during one night of sleep has previously been shown to improve deep sleep and along with memory formation in both young and older adults. Yet, it remains unclear whether long-term auditory stimulation considerably improves sleep quality over longer time periods and how it affects daytime functioning such as cognition, mood, quality of life and peripheral functions (e.g. cardio-vascular). Due to the importance of deep sleep for brain and body and the presence of many conditions that involve reduced deep sleep (e.g. ageing) assessing the beneficial impact of long-term sleep enhancement and its consequences is of central interest.This study will assess the effect of auditory stimulation over two weeks (interleaved with a two weeks washout period) in a cohort of healthy young and older adults using portable recording and stimulation devices.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
33
Inclusion Criteria
  • Informed Consent as documented by signature
  • For women: Hormonal contraception, if menstrual cycle is still present or has been present less than a year ago
  • Good general health status
  • Stable home situation (e.g. long-term place to live) that allows for reliable application of intervention for the duration of the study
  • Male and Female subjects 18-35 years of age or 60-84 years of age
  • German speaking
Exclusion Criteria
  • Women who are pregnant or breast feeding,
  • Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse,
  • Intake of sleep altering medication
  • Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, cognitive deficits
  • Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study,
  • Presence or history of diagnosed psychiatric/neurologic disorder/lesion of the central nervous system (CNS),
  • Diagnosed internal disease,
  • Presence of sleep disorders,
  • Shift-work (work during the night) or situations that require several awakenings during the night (e.g. newborn)
  • Travelling more than 2 time zones in the last month before intervention starts or during intervention (study start will be shifted accordingly)
  • Hearing disability/ hearing aid
  • Skin disorders/problems in face region that will worsen with /not allow adhesive electrode application
  • Nicotine/Cannabis use
  • High caffeine consumption (> 5 servings/day; including coffee, energy drink)

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
CROSSOVER
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Application of tonesApplication of tonesDuring non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep short tones will be played
No application of tonesNo application of tonesDuring NREM sleep no short tones will be played
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sleep qualityFrom baseline period to study completion, assessed up to 2 months

Objective information about sleep macro- and microstructure will be assessed including measures like sleep architecture, amount of slow wave activity (SWA), amount of spindles, awakenings during sleep, and sleep fragmentation. In addition, subjective sleep quality will be obtained by questionnaires every morning over the intervention period. These measures will show whether auditory stimulation enhanced overall sleep quality compared to sham.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Daily functioning - MoodFrom the beginning of the first intervention period until the end of the second intervention period, assessed within a time period up to 6 weeks

Mood will be digitally assessed using a daily mood scale over the intervention period

Daily functioning - VigilanceFrom the beginning of the first intervention period until the end of the second intervention period, assessed within a time period up to 6 weeks

Vigilance will be assessed using a digital psychomotor vigilance task, assessed daily over the intervention period

Physiological parameters - Physical activityThrough study completion, approximately 2 months

Physical activity levels will be obtained using wearable monitors

Daily functioning - Quality of lifeFrom the beginning of the first intervention period until the end of the second intervention period, assessed within a time period up to 6 weeks

Quality of life will be assessed using a World Health Organization (WHO) quality of life assessment before and after each intervention period

Daily functioning - CognitionFrom the beginning of the first intervention period until the end of the second intervention period, assessed within a time period up to 6 weeks

Cognition will be assessed using a digital test battery before and after each intervention

Physiological parameters - CardiovascularFrom baseline period to study completion, assessed up to 2 months

R-R interval based assessments will be obtained using wearable monitors

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

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