Key result
Dynamic, low-illuminance lighting increases parasympathetic tone by ~44% versus baseline.
Why the study?
Work and life stress lead to fatigue and disease, prompting the need to assist people in achieving deep rest and a restorative state after fatigue.
Does dynamic and low-illuminance lighting improve parasympathetic nervous system activity and relaxation in healthy subjects during a short rest?
RCT (n=21)
Random sequence for participating in the experiment
No
Does dynamic and low-illuminance lighting improve parasympathetic nervous system activity and relaxation in healthy subjects during a short rest?
Dynamic low-illuminance lighting may effectively enhance parasympathetic activity and subjective relaxation during short rest periods.
Dynamic low-illuminance lighting may aid short-term relaxation in healthy adults; extends HRV evidence but requires validation in patients.
Overloaded work and life stress often result in excessive fatigue and stresses in people, further leading to psychological burden and physiological disease. In this case, good rest is important in busy life. Good rest could result in good quality of life and work efficiency. In order to assist people in getting into deep rest to obtain a restorative state after fatigue, a dynamic lighting system with low-frequency change for assisting users in effective relaxation is proposed in this study. Heart rate variability analysis is used for discussing the change in the autonomic nervous system of the subjects under dynamic lighting environment, and a self-report questionnaire is applied to understand the subjects' psychological feeling. The research results indicate that the subjects significantly showed enhancement in the activities of parasympathetic nervous system within 25 minutes in the dynamic lighting process, in comparison with the steady lighting system. The questionnaire survey results also reveal that the subjects receive higher quality of rest, after the dynamic and low-illuminance lighting stimuli, with good feeling.
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Chen et al. (2021) conducted an RCT in Healthy subjects (n=21). Dynamic and low-illuminance lighting vs. Steady and low-illuminance (10 lux) white light or no light (Control) was evaluated on Normalized high-frequency power (nHFP) at 25 minutes compared to 5 minutes (baseline) (p=<0.05). Dynamic and low-illuminance lighting significantly increased parasympathetic nervous system activity (nHFP) to 49.7 at 25 minutes compared to 34.5 at baseline (p<0.05).
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