Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT05816434
More Sleep: Pain Response to Longer Sleep
Can More Sleep Improve Pain Responses, Symptomatology, and Regulation in College Students?
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 36 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Penn State University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 24 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study is being done to find out whether extending sleep for at least an hour per night, seven days a week, predicts a higher tolerance and a higher threshold for pain. This is a 21-day study. Participants will be asked to wear sleep- and heart- monitoring watches. Pressure pain and cold pain will be measured at study visits.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Sleep extension | \>1 hour additional time in bed per night for 1 week. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2024-03-18
- Primary completion
- 2025-11-04
- Completion
- 2025-11-04
- First posted
- 2023-04-18
- Last updated
- 2026-02-02
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05816434. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.