A Phase 2 interventional study of Psychosocial support exercise programme and Prescribed exercise in Depression, sponsored by University of Nottingham. Completed at 3 sites in United Kingdom. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 90 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-03-03.
Sponsored by University of Nottingham · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The investigators want to find out if their specially designed exercise programme will be more successful at helping women with depression to feel better than a basic programme will, by measuring the effect the programme has on mood, physical health, and social wellbeing. Their specially designed exercise programme will involve physical exertion at the participants' chosen level of intensity (how hard the body has to work during exercise), and will include motivational support. By contrast, the basic exercise programme will be at an intensity recommended by national guidelines, of the type that may be prescribed by a general practitioner (GP), and will include no extra motivational support.
8,055 studies on the registry are indexed under Depression; 1,643 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 43 is below the median of 84 across 6,718 interventional studies indexed under Depression.
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Comprising 22 participants engaging in the experimental exercise programme, exercising with psychosocial support.
Behavioral: Psychosocial support exercise programme
Comprising 21 participants engaging in a programme of typical prescribed exercise.
Behavioral: Prescribed exercise
The experimental arm will experience 12 sessions of intervention, at a rate of three sessions a week for four weeks, exercising in groups of ten women. Each session will comprise: fifteen minutes of psychosocial and motivational support, run by a qualified rehabilitation psychologist and overseen by a qualified health psychologist; a half hour preferred intensity exercise session run by a qualified sports physiotherapist. Participants preferred intensity (chosen exertion level) will be established using the Borg RPE scale (Borg G 1998).
This group will experience 12 sessions of intervention, at a rate of three sessions a week for four weeks, exercising in groups of ten women. Each session will be an half hour exercise session, at a typically (GP) prescribed level, designed in accordance with national guidelines and run by a qualified sports physiotherapist.
The primary outcome measure is score on the BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory version 2).
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
Resting heart rate.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
GHQ12.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
The SF-12vII.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
The Rosenberg self-esteem scale.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
Quality of life in depression scale.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
The multidimensional scale of perceived social support.
Time frame: At the plenary session of the programmes.
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