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Trying a rocking bed at night

Researchers test whether a bed that provides controlled rocking is practical and acceptable for people with Parkinson’s.

Testing a treatment or activity · Study reference: NCT06386497

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Start (reported actual date)
2024-01-11
Main measurements finished (planned)
2027-12-31
Study finished (planned)
2027-12-31

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  • 2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Who can join?

Ages 18 years to 85 years · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: all

Inclusion Criteria: * Informed Consent signed by the subject * PD according to the MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease * Suffering from reduced sleep quality as defined by pathological cut-off (score of \> 5) on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) * Patients with stable antiparkinsonian, antidepressant, and sleep medications for six weeks before intervention and maintained on stable medication during the intervention period * Treatment without bilateral deep brain stimulation * Fluent in German Exclusion Criteria: * Brain disease other than Parkinson's disease (e.g. atypical Parkinsonism, Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, etc.). * Dementia as defined by a MOCA score lower than 24/30 * Weight \> 150kg * Depression with acute suicidal ideation * Presence of major ongoing psychiatric illness such as acute non-controlled psychosis * Poor general health (e.g. non-controlled diabetes, uncontrolled arterial hypertension, therapy for malignancy) * Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. filling out patient questionnaires due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the participant * Participation in another interventional trial within the 30 days preceding and during the present study * Participants with PSQI score lower or equal 5
Full study name & original research details

Official study title

Overnight Treatment of Parkinson's Disease Using Vestibular Stimulation From a Rocking Bed (Somnomat Casa) - A Feasibility Study

Short title used by the registry

Acceptability of the Somnomat Casa for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease

Original description

This pilot study aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of nocturnal translational vestibular stimulations (VS) applied by a rocking bed (Somnomat Casa) for two months in patients with Parkinson's Disease.

Further description from the registry

Twelve PD patients will receive overnight VS in their familiar home environment for two months via the rocking bed. Participants will be given questionnaires to obtain feedback on the acceptability of the nocturnal intervention device. Effects on sleep, motor and non-motor symptoms, and quality of life will be assessed using the appropriate validated scales and questionnaires. The corresponding assessments will be performed before, during, and two month after the intervention. Unobtrusive pressure-sensitive textiles and bioradar will be used to record physiological variables such as body position, movements, breathing rate, and heart rate to correlate them to the clinical assessments as well as to markers obtained from actigraphy devices that the patients will be wearing throughout the study. The primary feasibility outcomes include rate of accrual and retention, adherence to the protocol, acceptability and satisfaction with intervention using rocking bed specific questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and data collected automatically from the bed. To assess the preliminary effectiveness of the intervention the secondary outcomes are the change in subjective sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, PD related sleep disorders, mentation, behaviour, mood, activities of daily living, motor performance, and quality of life.

Conditions reported: Parkinson Disease

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Study type
Interventional
Interventions
Nocturnal translational vestibular stimulation
Phases
NA
Sponsor
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Start date reported by registry
2024-01-11 (actual)

Registry updated: 2026-05-22 · Status last verified by the registry submitter: 2026-05

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Lenard Lachenmayer, MD · 31 66 4 12 59 · lenard.lachenmayer@insel.ch

Study locations

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Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Bern, Switzerland

Recruiting

Lenard Lachenmayer, MD · 31 664 12 59 · lenard.lachenmayer@insel.ch

ETH Zurich, Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, IRIS

Zurich, Switzerland

Not yet recruiting

Robert Riener, Prof. · 44 632 66 79 · robert.riener@hest.ethz.ch

Facility not reported

Switzerland

Status not reported

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