More Sleep: Pain Response to Longer Sleep

Description

This study is being done to find out whether extending sleep for at least an hour per night, seven days a week, predicts a higher tolerance and a higher threshold for pain. This is a 21-day study. Participants will be asked to wear sleep- and heart- monitoring watches. Pressure pain and cold pain will be measured at study visits.

Conditions

Sleep, Pain

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Study overview

This study is being done to find out whether extending sleep for at least an hour per night, seven days a week, predicts a higher tolerance and a higher threshold for pain. This is a 21-day study. Participants will be asked to wear sleep- and heart- monitoring watches. Pressure pain and cold pain will be measured at study visits.

Can More Sleep Improve Pain Responses, Symptomatology, and Regulation in College Students?

More Sleep: Pain Response to Longer Sleep

Condition
Sleep
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

University Park

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. 18 to 24 (inclusive) years of age at enrollment
  • 2. Fluent English speaker and reader
  • 3. Willing to refrain from initiating new therapeutic interventions (e.g., medication; behavioral) designed to target sleep or pain for the duration of study participation
  • 1. Diagnosed with a sleep disorder
  • 2. Diagnosed with a pain disorder
  • 3. Has experienced a cold-related injury frostbite or has any other nerve damage to the feet
  • 4. Has a history of injury to any of the muscular measurement sites for pain (I.e. shoulder, jaw, forearm)
  • 5. Diagnosed with hypertension or cardiovascular disease
  • 6. Evidence of hypertension
  • 7. Diagnosed serious mental health disorder or substance use disorder
  • 8. Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for sleep
  • 9. Taking any physician-directed pharmacologic intervention for pain
  • 10. Personal health history of traumatic brain injury
  • 11. Pregnant
  • 12. Current smoker

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 24 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Penn State University,

Study Record Dates

2025-04-30