Morning sunlight reduces length of hospitalization in bipolar depression

被引：190

作者：

Benedetti, F ^{[1
]}

Colombo, C ^{[1
]}

Barbini, B ^{[1
]}

Campori, E ^{[1
]}

Smeraldi, E ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Milan, Sch Med, Dept Neuropsychiat Sci, Ist Sci Osped San Raffaele, I-20127 Milan, Italy

来源：

JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS | 2001年 / 62卷 / 03期

关键词：

sunlight; bipolar depression; hospitalization;

D O I：

10.1016/S0165-0327(00)00149-X

中图分类号：

R74 [神经病学与精神病学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Background: Bright artificial light improves non-seasonal depression. Preliminary observations suggest that sunlight could share this effect. Methods: Length of hospitalization was recorded for a sample of 415 unipolar and 187 bipolar depressed inpatients, assigned to rooms with eastern (E) or western (W) windows, Results: Bipolar inpatients in E rooms (exposed to direct sunlight in the morning) had a mean 3.67-day shorter hospital stay than patients in W rooms. No effect was found in unipolar inpatients. Conclusions: Natural sunlight can be an underestimated and uncontrolled light therapy for bipolar depression. Limitations: This is a naturalistic retrospective observation, which needs to be confirmed by prospective studies. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：221 / 223

页数：3

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