Efficacy of Daylight as Adjunctive Treatment in Patients With Depression

The aim of this study is to improve the treatment effect for outpatients with depression by adding regular daily morning daylight exposure to their treatment with antidepressants. Patients will wear a personal light tracker to keep them motivated. Our hypothesis is that patients daily exposed to morning daylight, as a supplement to standard treatment for depression, will achieve significantly higher antidepressant effect that patients receiving standard treatment alone. Furthermore, we hypothesize that they will experience improved well-being and sleep.