Effect of Aerobics and Balancing Exercises on Anxiety and Dizziness in Patients With COVID-19

Merit University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Corona Virus Infection

Treatments: Other: Aerobics exercises, Balance exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04996225

A,B E COVID 19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The recently emerged coronavirus named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2) is the newest threat to human health. It has already infected more than half a million people worldwide, leading to a lot of deaths. Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19) will experience high levels of anxiety and low sleep quality due to isolation treatment. Purposes: Was to investigate the effect of aerobics and balancing exercises on anxiety and dizziness in patients with COVID-19. Subjects: Thirty anxiety and dizziness patients with COVID-19 aged from 45-65 years of both sexes, randomly divided into two groups, selected from outpatient clinic ,General

Full description

In December 2019, a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China, with clinical presentations greatly resembling viral pneumonia. Deep sequencing analysis from lower respiratory tract samples indicated a novel coronavirus, which was named 2019 novel coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). On February 12, 2020, WHO officially named the disease caused by the novel coronavirus as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),and by March 11th, 2020 when the number of countries involved was 114, with more than 118,000 cases and over 4000 deaths, the WHO declared the pandemic status

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Thirty patients with COVID-19
• Age between 45 -65 years
• Cooperative patient.
• All patients were referred from physician with the diagnosis of COVID-19

Exclusion criteria

• Overweigh patients with body mass index more than 30.
• Pregnant women.
• Cancer patients.
• Smokers
• Patients with chronic heart disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Group (A): (study group)

Experimental group

Description:

Group (A): (study group) 15 patients received aerobics exercises and balancing exercises in addition to relaxation exercises for 4 weeks, 3sessions/week.

Treatment:

Other: Aerobics exercises, Balance exercises

Group (B): (Control group)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

2-Group (B): (Control group) 15 patients received relaxation exercises in the form of physical relaxation exercise for 4 weeks, 3 sessions/week. the participants who received aerobics exercises and balancing exercises in addition to relaxation exercises (experimental group A), showed significant decrease in anxiety and dizziness more than (placebo group B)

Treatment:

Other: Aerobics exercises, Balance exercises