Exercise in Severe Mental Illness. The PsychiActive Project

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exercise Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03352544

CTS948AFS17

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to study the effects of exercise on body weight, body composition, anthropometric and fasting blood measures, physical fitness, pulmonary function, quality of life, and lifestyle habits in patients with severe mental illness.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with severe mental illness established by experienced psychiatrists, aged 18 years or older and stabilized on antipsychotic medication during the last month.

Exclusion criteria

Patients with clinical instability, co-morbid substance abuse, or evidence of uncontrolled cardiovascular, neuromuscular and endocrine disorders.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Exercise training for 12 weeks (aerobic and resistance training trice a week).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Usual treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual treatment during 12 weeks, coinciding with exercise intervention time frame.