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Evidence suggests Light Therapy maydecreaseDepression.
16 studies (16 claims)
Moderate consensus
Study Claims
| Intervention | Direction | Endpoint | Type | Population | Dosage | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chronotherapeutic interventions aimed at realigning the circadian system | Decreases - can improve | depression | Human | — | Not specified | Circadian realignment and depressed mood: A systematic review. |
| bright light therapy | Decreases - revealing a medium-to-large post-treatment effect | depression | Human | — | — | Psychological and behavioural interventions in bipolar disorder that target sleep and circadian rhythms: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials.cited 14× |
| blue wavelength light therapy | Decreases - was significantly superior to NLT in reducing | depression | Human | patients with a history of TBI | — | Blue-wavelength light therapy for post-traumatic brain injury sleepiness, sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.cited 15× |
| adjunct bright light therapy | Decreases - has shown efficacy in treating depression | depression | Human | — | Not specified | Evaluating the impact of adjunct bright light therapy on subjective sleep quality in major depressive disorder.cited 4× |
| optimizing psychiatric medication doses | Decreases - recommend | depression | Human | persons with epilepsy and depression | Not specified | Depression in Persons With Epilepsy: Lessons From Case Review. |
| light therapy | Decreases - positive effect | depression | Human | patients affected by bipolar depression | Not specified | Antidepressant light therapy for bipolar patients: A meta-analyses.cited 9× |
| bright light therapy | Decreases - is an equally effective intervention | depression | Human | persons with both mild/moderate and severe dementia | Not specified | Bright Light Therapy to Treat Depression in Individuals with Mild/Moderate or Severe Dementia.cited 17× |
| bright light therapy | Decreases - encouraging | depression | Human | unipolar depression | Not specified | Sleep and major depressive disorder: a review of non-pharmacological chronotherapeutic treatments for unipolar depression.cited 21× |
| bright light therapy | Decreases - effective in | depression | Human | — | Not specified | Chronobiology, sleep-related risk factors and light therapy in perinatal depression: the "Life-ON" project.cited 17× |
| light therapy | Decreases - was more effective than the placebo group | depression | Human | women during pregnancy and the postnatal period | Not specified | The effects of light therapy on depression and sleep in women during pregnancy or the postpartum period: A systematic review and meta-analysis.cited 8× |
| massage | Decreases - a potential role was found for | depression | Human | those with Bulimia Nervosa | Not specified | The role of complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of eating disorders: A systematic review.cited 19× |
| bright light therapy | Decreases - is an effective intervention | depression | Human | the general population | Not available | A multicenter randomized controlled trial for bright light therapy in adults with intellectual disabilities and depression: Study protocol and obstacle management.cited 7× |
| new antidepressant medications | Decreases - antidepressant efficacy | depression | Human | depressed patients | Not specified | Circadian rhythms and treatment implications in depression.cited 94× |