Effectiveness of a Supervised Hospital-based Physical Exercise

Bioaraba Health Research Institute

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety; Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Other: unsupervised physical exercise; Other: supervised physical exercise sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT04851795

PA01

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess if physical activity is effective in reducing stress and anxiety in healthcare professionals.

Full description

To assess if physical activity is effective in reducing stress and anxiety in healthcare professionals.

To evaluate if physical activity is effective in improving the physical and mental state of health care professionals and improving several blood parameters (lipid profile and blood glucose).

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

• Apt for sports practice after review by the corresponding health professional of the Occupational Health Service,
• Motivation for sports practice (could be self-referred or on an EVA scale from a score for example of 6) being 0 not motivated at all and 10 totally motivated.

One could extrapolate the score limits of the EVA scale pain no motivation=0; mild motivation=1,2; moderate=3-5; high from 6.

• Professionals whose working day does not coincide with the hours during which the sessions are to be given.
• Professionals who do not work shifts.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any type of contraindication for sports practice (Annex I),
• Staff who, due to their activity, have greater mobility in the hospital (orderlies).
• Osteoarticular injuries, cervical and lumbalgias.

Withdrawal criteria

-Within the intervention group - absence maximum two weeks to the exercises. This will not be taken into account during the summer period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

supervised physical exercise sessions

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to the supervised exercise group will perform a supervised routine of approximately 30 minutes, 2 days per week (Monday and Wednesday at the Txagorritxu hospital, and Tuesday and Thursday at the Santiago hospital from 7:15 to 7:45 and from 15:15 to 15:45).

Treatment:

Other: supervised physical exercise sessions

unsupervised physical exercise sessions

Other group

Description:

For the non-supervised group, we will propose climbing the stairs from floor 0 to floor 7 three times during the working day and doing planks and stretching exercises outside of work. For the latter, an educational session will be given at the beginning of the study to explain how to perform them correctly.

Treatment:

Other: unsupervised physical exercise