ND-0691 · 1996 · Other
Sunny hospital rooms expedite recovery from severe and refractory depressions
Beauchemin KM, Hays P. Journal of Affective Disorders. 1996.
doi.org/10.1016/0165-0327(96)00040-7 · Finding checked against the abstract
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What the source reports
Depressed inpatients in bright, sunny rooms stayed an average of 16.9 days against 19.5 days in dull rooms, 2.6 days (15%) shorter.
Design questions and applications
Give psychiatric inpatient rooms direct sunlight.
Field
Light and circadian
Notes and follow-up
Added from the Corpus Desk (card beauchemin-1996-sunny) on 2026-11-09; the card finding was rewritten from the abstract. Evidence strength and translation distance not yet rated. WELL label held for review.
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