An interventional study of Self-motivated physical activity and Nutrition in Depression, sponsored by Australian National University. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to participants aged 11 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-07-20.
Sponsored by Australian National University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The purpose of this study is to determine whether physical activity prevents development of depressive symptoms in adolescents.
The primary objective of the project is to establish whether increasing physical activity can promote mental well-being in adolescents who are already displaying some depressive symptoms.
A further objective is to evaluate the feasibility of a novel self-motivated physical activity intervention, which has been designed for this project.
The final objective of this project is to investigate alternative intervention delivery modes, for an adolescent sample with subclinical depressive symptomatology, i.e., presenting with some depression symptoms but not at a level where major depressive disorder would be diagnosed. We aim to compare the effect of a completely mediated delivery approach for physical activity (i.e., no researcher contact) and a mediated intervention with face-to-face contact and fortnightly check-in telephone calls.
8,057 studies on the registry are indexed under Depression; 1,641 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 26 is below the median of 84 across 6,720 interventional studies indexed under Depression.
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Self-motivated physical activity intervention Materials mailed to participants
Behavioral: Self-motivated physical activity
Nutrition attention-control arm. Delivered by researcher.
Behavioral: Nutrition
Self-motivated physical activity intervention Delivered by researcher.
Behavioral: Physical activity researcher contact
Components: 1. Physical activity education in the form of a brief booklet (double sided A4 page). 2. Physical activity motivation tips (one sided A4 page). 3. Pedometer 4. Monitoring chart 5. Online presentation of common obstacles and ways to overcome these obstacles
Components: 1. Nutrition education booklet (Double-sided A4 page) 2. Nutrition motivation tips (single-sided A4 page) 3. Nutrition monitoring chart 4. Online presentation of common obstacles and ways to overcome these obstacles
Behavioral: Self-motivated physical activity Components: 1. Physical activity education in the form of a brief booklet (double sided A4 page). 2. Physical activity motivation tips (one sided A4 page). 3. Pedometer 4. Monitoring chart 5. Online presentation of common obstacles and ways to overcome these obstacles
Depression as measured by the Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D)
Time frame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 4 month post-intervention follow-up
Physical activity levels
Time frame: Baseline, 8 weeks and 4 month post-intervention follow-up
Anxiety (RCMAS)
Time frame: Baseline, 8 weeks, and 4 month post-intervention follow-up
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