Evaluating the effects of light therapy on fatigue and sleep disturbance in people with traumatic brain injury

Professor Jennie Ponsford0 个研究点目标入组 75 人开始时间: 2008年7月14日最近更新: 2020年1月13日

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•Participants will have sustained a mild, moderate or severe traumatic brian injury; they will be between 17 and 60 years of age and have adequate English skills, cognitive ability, visual acuity and physical ability to complete the questionnaires and therapy tasks
•Participants will also include non-injured healthy controls.

•They will have no history of previous head injury, neurological disorder, pre-injury sleep disorder or chronic fatigue syndrome, which has required treatment. Those with pre-injury psychiatric disorders or substance abuse requiring hospitalisation will also be exlcuded. They will be excluded if they need to undergo any surgery during the period of the study. They will have no obesity based on body mass index, have had no transmeridian travel across more than one time zone in the preceding 3 months, no nightshift work in the preceding 3 months, no current use of psychotropic medication and no illicit drug use. Participants will be exlcuded if they have experienced epileptic seizures following injury or are tkaing medication known to have a significant effect upon sleep or cause fatigue, such as benzodiazepines

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Professor Jennie Ponsford