Effects of Moderate Exercise And Interval Exercise On Sleep Quality (EX&sleep)

National Taiwan Sport University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Control Condition; Exercise Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: interval exercise; Behavioral: moderate exercise; Behavioral: Control (placebo) group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06638359

113-6

113-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to explore the effects of a single bout of moderate- aerobic continuous exercise (MACE) and high-intensity intermittent exercise (HIIE) on sleep during continuous night shifts in medical shift workers with mild sleep impairment.

Full description

Medical staff with sleep disturbances due to their night-shift work were randomized to either a treadmill walking session for 47 minutes with moderate intensity (the heart rate reaches 70~75% of the maximum heart rate), treadmill running section for 28 minutes with intermittent high-intensity (the heart rate reaches 90~95% of the maximum heart rate for 4 minutes and 50~70% for 3 minutes), or a quiet-rest control, 14 hours before undertaking a continuous night shift. Sleep quality was assessed by ActiGraph with subjective questionnaire for 1 night and 3 nights after exercise. Tests were performed (t-tests or χ2 tests) to test for differences between any two of the three intervention trials.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• medical staff who have worked at least three consecutive night shifts
• reporting sleep disturbed during the night shift
• not taking sleep/psychotropic medications
• no clinical diagnosis of sleep apnea or other sleep disorder
• not exercising regularly

Exclusion criteria

• not medical staff
• without night shift
• taking sleep/psychotropic medications
• exercising regularly

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise

Experimental group

Description:

moderate intensity or interval exercise

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control (placebo) group

Behavioral: moderate exercise

Behavioral: interval exercise

control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

without exercise

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control (placebo) group

Behavioral: moderate exercise

Behavioral: interval exercise