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  • Use of light therapy in German psychiatric hospitals

  • S Kasper, S Ruhrmann, S Neumann, HJ Möller
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 9 / Issue 6 / 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. 288-292

  • In order to determine the usage pattern of light therapy (LT), we performed a survey of all psychiatric hospitals in Germany in 1992. Our data reveal that 13% of all psychiatric hospitals perform LT and another 7% indicate their interest in this treatment. Stratification into different treatment facilities demonstrates that 57% of the psychiatric university hospitals use LT. The usage of LT started in Germany in 1982 and there was a sharp rise from 1987 onwards. The majority of hospitals (89% of those hospitals which use LT) use LT successfully for the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and its subsyndromal form followed by non-SAD depression (68%). LT is used as monotherapy in 71% of SAD patients compared with 34% in non-SAD depression.