Clinical trial NCT03140124: Enhancing Therapy Process With Movement Strategies
Official title: Enhancing Therapy Process With Movement Strategies
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Lead sponsor: Boston University Charles River Campus
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-05-04
Enrollment: 1
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: Participants receive both conditions, with randomized order
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Several studies have noted the benefits of exercise programs in improving both mood and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, single bouts of exercise have been shown to improve mood and anxiety. Business applications report ancillary benefits of exercise as well. For example, individuals spontaneously report better ability to approach stimuli and cope with emotional experiences if doing it while exercising.

The current study aims to investigate exercise during a therapy session as a potential intervention for enhancing therapeutic learning, particularly ability to better cope with emotional topics and experiencing intense emotions. In this study, patient participants will complete a therapy session while using an exercise machine and a separate therapy session while using a worry stone (control). Both patient participants and therapist participants will make ratings of a variety of items, including ability to discuss emotional topics and comfort in experiencing emotions.

Investigators hypothesize that patients will report better ability to discuss emotional topics and more comfort in experiencing emotions following the exercise condition as opposed to the worry stone condition. Investigators also hypothesize that therapist ratings will similarly indicate that patients were better able to discuss emotional topics and experience emotional content during exercise sessions.

Detailed description: The current study aims to investigate exercise during a therapy session as a potential intervention for enhancing therapeutic learning, particularly ability to better cope with emotional topics and experiencing intense emotions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adults over the age of 18
2. Ability to read and provide informed consent
3. Current patient or therapist at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD)
4. Ability to complete exercise (e.g. no physical injuries)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participants considered high risk based on the ACSM risk stratification guidelines (derived from PAR-Q)
2. Participants with current knee, ankle, hip, or foot injuries that could impede exercise on the machine or participants with current hand or wrist injuries that could impede use of the worry stone

Primary outcomes:
measure: Session Rating Scale - Patient version (Questions 1 and 2)
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Session Rating Scale - Therapist version (Questions 1 and 2)
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Patient
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Therapist
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Affect Grid - Patient
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Affect Grid - Therapist
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Credibility-Expectations Questionnaire - Patient
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Credibility-Expectations Questionnaire - Therapist
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Session Rating Scales (Questions 3-7) - Patient
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Session Rating Scales (Questions 3-7) - Therapist
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
measure: Qualitative Feedback - Therapist
timeFrame: Change throughout 50-minute therapy session.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Boston University
state: Massachusetts
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