Improving Sleep in Veterans With the Polytrauma Clinical Triad
RecruitingNot applicableNCT06477796
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The "polytrauma clinical triad" (PCT), a highly disabling constellation of factors, is defined by the coexistence of traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic pain. Veterans with the PCT are medically complex, often refractory to conventional therapies, and suffer from additional related chronic sequela. Notably, sleep disturbances and cognitive impairment, which the investigators hypothesize are significant contributing factors to these functional impairments and an impediment toward rehabilitation. Thus, the investigators' research aims to intervene "at the level of sleep", and by improving sleep, improve these interconnected, disabling, and difficult to treat enduring complexities associated with the PCT - ultimately to improve Veteran quality of life, functional independence, and restorative function. The investigators predict that the proposed intervention, morning bright light therapy, which is cost-effective, rapidly deployable and home-based, will be effective in improving sleep and overall PCT symptom management, thereby, resulting in a measurable and impactful improvement in quality of life.
Study details
- Official title
- A Sleep Intervention to Improve Quality of Life and Symptom Management in Veterans With the Polytrauma Clinical Triad
- Conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Device: Morning Bright Light Therapy
- Device: Negative Ion Generator
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Start date
- 2025-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2027-12-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 89 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Veteran * English speaking with phone and internet access * Current self-reported sleep disturbances * Clinical stable for current pharmacologic or behavioral health treatments for depression, anxiety, sleep and pain * Documented history of TBI Exclusion Criteria: * Decisional impairment and/or dementia * Current usage of a lightbox or negative ion generator * Shift work * History of macular degeneration and/or bipolar disorder * Evidence for suicidal ideation * Cancer diagnosis within the past 6 months * Surgery within the past 6 months * Substance abuse within the past 6-12 months * Significant impairing post-stroke residual hemiparesis
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06477796