Supplemental ambient lighting intervention to improve sleep in Parkinson's disease: A pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sleep disturbances in Parkinson's disease (PD) are common and often adversely affect quality of life. Light therapy has benefited sleep quality and mood outcomes in various populations but results to date with conventional light therapy boxes in PD patients have been mixed. We hypothesized that a passive lighting intervention, applied in the morning and designed to maximally affect the circadian system, would improve measures of sleep and mood in PD patients.

Methods

In this single-arm, within-subjects intervention study, baseline objective sleep (actigraphy), subjective sleep quality (questionnaires), and subjective mood (questionnaires) data were collected for 1 week. Lighting was then administered to participants via table/floor lamps installed in the home or v

SUBMITTER: Yoo AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12281491 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature