NCT00139997

Environmental Treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial of Negative Ion Generation Versus Light-Emitting Diode Phototherapy For Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose is to study treatments of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Detailed description

This is a multicenter, randomized controlled trial of negative ion generation versus light-emitting diode phototherapy for seasonal affective disorder. Participants appropriate for the study are subjects with a DSM IV diagnosis of Major Depression, with seasonal pattern, winter type. Subjects were seen at Yale University,New Haven,CT University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC Groningen University Hospital,Groningen, The Netherlands, Royal Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa,Ontario, McGill University, Montreal,Quebec, University Hospital,Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The trial is 4 weeks in duration. This trial has now been completed.

Conditions

• Seasonal Affective Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Litebook treatment devices	Litebook LED phototherapy device used for 30 min before 8 am
DEVICE	Inactivated negative ion generator	Equivalent exposure to inactivated negative ion generator

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-01-01
• Primary completion: 2005-08-01
• Completion: 2005-08-01
• First posted: 2005-08-31
• Last updated: 2013-03-06
• Results posted: 2013-03-06

Locations

5 sites across 3 countries: United States, Canada, Netherlands