'Activity Pacing' in PLWH With Fatigue Symptoms. (ActiPacMAN)

Scientific Institute San Raffaele

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hiv

Treatments

Behavioral: Home-based physical activity

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05194059

ActiPacMAN

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical activity helps to improve health and prevent chronic diseases. However, the fatigue usually hampers the training and execution of physical exercises, especially in people with chronic fatigue syndromes (CFCs), such as persons living with HIV (PLWH). We hypothesize that the "activity pacing", i.e. the strategy to optimize daily physical activity into manageable exercises in a way that should not exacerbate fatigue symptoms, may help a progressive improvement in physical activity of a group of PLWH with fatigue symptoms. Motivation and adherence to exercise will be monitored through the use of digital supports.

Enrollment

24 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

of age ≥18 years;
either sedentary or already practicing mild/moderate physical activity (at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity throughout the week);
able to sign the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

The study will exclude HIV+ individuals:

with any HIV-related disease requiring hospitalization in the 6 weeks before enrolment;
with medical conditions (e.g. neurologic, muscular-skeletal, cardiovascular diseases) contraindicating non agonistic exercise, as established by a sport medicine specialist;
currently abusing of substance or alcohol;
already performing physical activity at higher level than the current WHO recommendations (30 minutes of moderate activity 5 times a week).