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Traumatic Brain InjuryTWILIGHTNCT02214212

TWILIGHT Study: Effect of Light Exposure During Acute Rehabilitation on Sleep After TBI

A study testing Bright White Light (BWL) and Red Light (RL) in people with Traumatic Brain Injury and TBI, run by University of Washington at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study proposes to investigate how well Bright White Light Therapy will work in the acute inpatient rehabilitation units for people whom have experienced a traumatic brain injury for the purpose of treating sleep disruption. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, Sleep
What is being tested?
Bright White Light (BWL) and Red Light (RL)
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
131 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Dec 2013to Mar 2017
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Have experienced a moderate to severe TBI.
  • Defined by any of the following:
  • Loss of Consciousness greater than 30 minutes.
  • Emergency Room admission with a Glasgow Coma Scale of 12 or below.
  • Intracranial abnormalities on imaging.
  • Post-traumatic amnesia that lasts more than 24 hours.
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  • Admitted to acute inpatient rehabilitation unit at Harborview Medical Center within 3 months of their Traumatic Brain Injury.
  • Able to communicate in English.
  • Between the ages of 18 and 70 years old
  • Have a clinician rating of the presence of a sleep disturbance (using the Makley scale)
  • Have some vision in one or both eyes.
  • Have a Body Mass Index lower than 40 kg/m2

Who cannot join

  • Unable to enroll if any of the following are true
  • Complete blindness
  • Absence of eye opening or disorders of consciousness (Rancho level 1-3).
  • Tetraplegia with less than antigravity strength in all myotomes caudal to C6 level given the limitations on measuring movements with actigraphy in this population (i.e. cannot reliably detect upper extremity or lower extremity movement with this level of paralysis).
  • Past medical history of retinal pathology
  • Past medical history of light sensitivity
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  • Past medical history of narcolepsy
  • Past medical history of bipolar disorder
  • Past medical history of obstructive sleep apnea
  • Suspected sleep apnea. (Determined by administering the Berlin questionnaire)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Harborview Medical Center

    Seattle, Washington, 98109

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About this study

Official title: TWILIGHT: Effect of Light Exposure During Acute Rehabilitation on Sleep After TBI.

This study proposes to investigate how well Bright White Light Therapy will work in the acute inpatient rehabilitation units for people whom have experienced a traumatic brain injury for the purpose of treating sleep disruption. Participants will be assessed based on sleep efficiency, thinking abilities, therapy participation, and perception of fatigue/sleepiness. In previous studies dim red light has not had the same effects on function as bright white light, and will be chosen for use as a placebo. Each subject will be randomized to receive 30 minutes of either Bright White Light Therapy or Red Light Treatment each morning for 10 days.

To measure the effect of this treatment, the investigators will measure the each participants sleep daily by using an actigraph watch. This watch will record movement continuously. The investigators will also measure the subjects' report of how well they slept, whether fatigue is present, and how attentive they are before and after treatment.

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Research Hypothesis:

In persons with TBI, prospectively compare overnight sleep in a cohort exposed to morning Bright White Light with a comparison group exposed to Red Light in an acute inpatient rehabilitation setting.

Read the detailed description

The investigators will recruit persons with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) on admission to intensive rehabilitation units. Consented participants (who meet all inclusion and exclusion criteria) will wear an actigraphy watch for 2 nights to obtain a baseline for sleep pattern identification. Prior to treatment, baseline measures (detailed below) will be obtained. Participants will be randomized to receive either Bright White Light (BWL) or Red Light (RL) treatment. Light therapy treatments will be given for 30 minutes daily in the morning for 10 days, and an Actiwatch will be worn continuously during that period. At the end of 10 days, outcome measures will be obtained (as below). The specific period of treatment may be affected by the length of stay on the rehabilitation unit. For lengths of stay less than the 10 days, subjects will receive the intervention until the day of discharge at which time the outcome measures will be administered. The investigators primary outcome measure with be the actigraphic measurement of sleep efficiency. Other secondary measures will be participation in therapy, sleepiness, and attention. The investigators will also evaluate the anticipated device costs and clinical staff burden involved in utilizing light therapy exposure in an inpatient rehabilitation clinical setting.

Being tested
Bright White Light (BWL), Red Light (RL)
Keywords
traumatic brain injury, TBI, Sleep, Bright White Light Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Recovery, Central Nervous System Diseases, Brain Diseases, Nervous System Diseases, Signs and Symptoms, Rehabilitation, Actigraphy
Medical subject headings
Brain Injuries, Traumatic, Central Nervous System Diseases, Brain Diseases, Nervous System Diseases, Signs and Symptoms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Bright White Light (BWL)Device

    Also called Litebook® (Bright White Light)

    The device emitting BWL will be placed 24 inches from the participant's face on a pre-measured table. The participant will spend 30 minutes with the eyes open in front of the device. This will occur each morning for 10 days.

  • Red Light (RL)Device

    Also called Litebook® (Red Light)

    The device emitting RL will be placed 24 inches from the participant's face on a pre-measured table. The participant will spend 30 minutes with the eyes open in front of the device. This will occur each morning for 10 days.

Study groups in NCT02214212
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Red Light (RL)Active comparatorIntervention/Device: This patient group will receive 30 minutes of red light daily for a period of 10 days in the morning. Identical baseline and outcome testing will be completed for both arms.
Receives: Device: Red Light (RL)
Bright White Light (BWL)ExperimentalIntervention/Device: This patient group will receive 30 minutes of bright white light daily for a period of 10 days in the morning. Identical baseline and outcome testing will be completed for both arms.
Receives: Device: Bright White Light (BWL)

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Actigraphy Data

    Sleep efficiency scores derived from actigraphy data will be the primary outcome. We will set the Actiwatch to record activity data in 60-second intervals. Actigraphy data will be automatically scored with Actiware software (Respironics, Philips Healthcare), which uses validated algorithms to determine whether an epoch of activity is "sleep" or "wake" (Cole RJ, 1992). Typically there is a lack of a consistent sleep/wake cycle in the study population, therefore we will be using sleep efficiency and total sleep time scores obtained during a set night-time interval (2200 to 0600) as the primary index of sleep function, as has been used in previous publications[39, 40]. We will be comparing average between group differences between the BWL and RL groups at baseline and after 10 days of light therapy.

    Measured: Average percent sleep efficiency (0-100) at baseline and after 10 days of light exposure

Secondary outcomes (8)
  1. Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale (BNI-FS)

    The Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale (BNI-FS; Fatigue Outcome) is an 11-point scale that examines fatigue during acute recovery from TBI. Scores on items 1-10 may range from 1 (rarely a problem), 2-3 (occasional problem but not frequent), 4-5 (a frequent problem), 6-7 (a problem most of the time). The last item is a general rating of fatigue from 0 (not a problem) to 10 (a severe problem). The total BNI-FS is a sum of the first 10 items (0-70), where higher scores indicate worse outcome.

    The BNI-FS is a scale that was designed to examine fatigue during acute recovery from TBI. The clinical staff involved in the care of these subjects were asked to rate the phototherapy intervention for ease of use, perceived relevance to rehabilitation care, and impression of effectiveness.

    Measured: At Baseline and After 10 Days of Light Exposure

  2. Functional Independence Measure (FIM) - Motor

    Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is the most widely accepted functional assessment measure in use in the rehabilitation community. The FIM is an 18-item ordinal scale, used with all diagnoses within a rehabilitation population. Each item is scored on a 7 point ordinal scale, ranging from a score of 1 to a score of 7. The higher the score, the more independent the patient is in performing the task associated with that item. Motor subscale (the sum of the individual motor subscale items) will be a value between 13 and 91.

    Measured: Administered at baseline (admission to unit) and after Day 10 of intervention (or at the day of discharge from the rehabilitation unit)

  3. Symbol Digit Modalities Test

    The Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) is a pencil and paper test for attention that takes approximately five minutes to administer and is frequently used in evaluations after TBI. The SDMT was administered at enrollment and after intervention. The Interagency Workgroup on TBI Outcomes selected the SDMT as CORE common data elements in TBI outcomes research. The SDMT measures attention and speed of processing (the test-taker substitutes a number for random presentations of geometric figures). Scoring involves summing the number of correct substitutions within the 90 second interval (min=0, max = 110), with higher scores representing better attention/speed of processing.

    Measured: Administered at Baseline and After 10 Days of Light Exposure

  4. Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Positive

    The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Mood Outcome) includes a total of 20 items of affect with 10 focused on positive affect and 10 focused on negative affect. The total score of the PANAS: Positive is the sum of the 10 positive items which are rated on a likert scale ranging from 1=very slightly or not at all to 5=extremely. For the total positive score, a higher score indicates more positive affect. affect. Scores can range from 10-50 for Positive Affect.

    Measured: Administered at Baseline and After 10 Days of Light Exposure

  5. Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Negative

    The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Mood Outcome) includes a total of 20 items of affect with 10 focused on positive affect and 10 focused on negative affect. The total score of the PANAS: Negative is the sum of the 10 negative items which are rated on a likert scale ranging from 1=very slightly or not at all to 5=extremely. For the total negative score, a higher score indicates more negative affect. affect. Scores can range from 10-50 for Negative Affect.

    Measured: Administered at baseline and after 10 days of light exposure

  6. Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS)

    The Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS; Sleepiness Outcome) is a single-question with a 9-point Likert scale (1 = extremely alert, 9 = extremely sleepy, fighting sleep) measuring subjective sleepiness at the time of report.

    Measured: Administered at Baseline and after 10 Days of Light Exposure

  7. Makley Scale

    The Makley scale is a 4-point ordinal scale which allows staff to score sleep as follows:

    0 = asleep; 1 = drowsy/falling asleep; 2 = drowsy/waking up; 3 = awake.

    Measured: A sleep log was completed every 2 hours during the night (2200 until 0600) on each patient by the unit nursing staff hours for 12 nights or until discharge from the hospital (2 nights baseline and after 10 nights of intervention light exposure)

  8. Functional Independence Measure (FIM) - Cognitive

    Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is the most widely accepted functional assessment measure in use in the rehabilitation community. The FIM is an 18-item ordinal scale, used with all diagnoses within a rehabilitation population. Each item is scored on a 7 point ordinal scale, ranging from a score of 1 to a score of 7. The higher the score, the more independent the patient is in performing the task associated with that item. Cognition subscale (the sum of the individual cognition subscale items) will be a value between 5 and 35.

    Measured: Administered at baseline (admission to unit) and after Day 10 of light exposure (or at the day of discharge from the rehabilitation unit)

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted12 Aug 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study startDec 2013
  3. Primary completionMar 2017
  4. Study completionMar 2017

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Triple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
131 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02214212
Sponsor's protocol ID
STUDY00000219
Acronym
TWILIGHT
Status last verified
Oct 2021
First submitted
31 Jul 2014
Last updated
9 Nov 2021
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Bell KR, Fogelberg D, Barber J, Nakase-Richardson R, Zumsteg JM, Dubiel R, Dams-O'Connor K, Hoffman JM. The effect of phototherapy on sleep during acute rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial. Brain Inj. 2021 Jan 18;35(2):180-188. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2021.1871952. Epub 2021 Jan 17.

    PubMed 33459040

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Bright White Light (BWL) and Red Light (RL) in people with Traumatic Brain Injury and TBI, run by University of Washington at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 12 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 9 Nov 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 9 Nov 2021). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Actigraphy Data (time frame: Average percent sleep efficiency (0-100) at baseline and after 10 days of light exposure). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02214212, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 9 Nov 2021.

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