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Blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study

BACKGROUND: Late adolescence and early adulthood is a period of highest incidence for onset of mental health problems. Transition to college environment has been associated with many risk factors such as the initial disruption—and subsequent irregularity—of the student’s sleep and activity schedule....

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Autores principales: Perez Algorta, Guillermo, Van Meter, Anna, Dubicka, Bernadka, Jones, Steven, Youngstrom, Eric, Lobban, Fiona
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30410784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0360-y
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author Perez Algorta, Guillermo
Van Meter, Anna
Dubicka, Bernadka
Jones, Steven
Youngstrom, Eric
Lobban, Fiona
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Van Meter, Anna
Dubicka, Bernadka
Jones, Steven
Youngstrom, Eric
Lobban, Fiona
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description BACKGROUND: Late adolescence and early adulthood is a period of highest incidence for onset of mental health problems. Transition to college environment has been associated with many risk factors such as the initial disruption—and subsequent irregularity—of the student’s sleep and activity schedule. We tested the feasibility of using blue blocking glasses (BBG) at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints, to obtain preliminary evidence for the impact of BBG on sleep, activity, and mood. METHODS: Participants were 13 first year undergraduates (from 10 different academic courses) living on campus for the first time with sleep complaints/disorders confirmed at screening via the Duke Structured Interview Schedule for Sleep Disorders. We used a 2-week, balanced crossover design (BBG vs placebo glasses; participants were unaware which was the active intervention) with computer-generated random allocation. Exploratory analyses provided descriptive and frequency summaries to evaluate feasibility of the intervention. RESULTS: Preliminary evidence supports the feasibility and acceptability of the trial; almost all screened participants consented and completed the protocol with high adherence; missing data were negligible. Additionally, the effectiveness of BBGs to enhance sleep, mood, and activity levels in young adults was supported. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this feasibility trial suggest that BBG have potential as an inexpensive and feasible intervention for reducing sleep and circadian dysregulation in young adult students. A larger trial, following this successfully implemented protocol, is necessary to fully test the efficacy of BBG.
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spelling pubmed-62114542018-11-08 Blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study Perez Algorta, Guillermo Van Meter, Anna Dubicka, Bernadka Jones, Steven Youngstrom, Eric Lobban, Fiona Pilot Feasibility Stud Research BACKGROUND: Late adolescence and early adulthood is a period of highest incidence for onset of mental health problems. Transition to college environment has been associated with many risk factors such as the initial disruption—and subsequent irregularity—of the student’s sleep and activity schedule. We tested the feasibility of using blue blocking glasses (BBG) at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints, to obtain preliminary evidence for the impact of BBG on sleep, activity, and mood. METHODS: Participants were 13 first year undergraduates (from 10 different academic courses) living on campus for the first time with sleep complaints/disorders confirmed at screening via the Duke Structured Interview Schedule for Sleep Disorders. We used a 2-week, balanced crossover design (BBG vs placebo glasses; participants were unaware which was the active intervention) with computer-generated random allocation. Exploratory analyses provided descriptive and frequency summaries to evaluate feasibility of the intervention. RESULTS: Preliminary evidence supports the feasibility and acceptability of the trial; almost all screened participants consented and completed the protocol with high adherence; missing data were negligible. Additionally, the effectiveness of BBGs to enhance sleep, mood, and activity levels in young adults was supported. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this feasibility trial suggest that BBG have potential as an inexpensive and feasible intervention for reducing sleep and circadian dysregulation in young adult students. A larger trial, following this successfully implemented protocol, is necessary to fully test the efficacy of BBG. BioMed Central 2018-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6211454/ /pubmed/30410784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0360-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Jones, Steven
Youngstrom, Eric
Lobban, Fiona
Blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study
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title_short Blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study
title_sort blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30410784
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0360-y
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