Exercise Strategies to Motivate and Relieve Stress

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Lung Disease; Cardiopulmonary Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Music Condition; Behavioral: Podcast Condition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05776264

AAAU4513

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate exercise strategies that motivate and relive stress in adults with cardiopulomnary conditions. The goals of this study are as follows:

• To explore the feasibility (how easily it can be done) of using self-selected music during exercise training for adults with cardiopulmonary conditions.
• To assess patient satisfaction of self-selected music with exercise for adults with cardiopulmonary conditions.
• To explore the immediate effects of self-selected music on mood and symptoms (shortness of breath and fatigue) compared with listening to a podcast during their exercise training session

Participants will:

• Select 5-7 songs and 1 podcast to listen to during their treatment session
• Walk on the treadmill while either listening to a podcast or music
• Fill out surveys about their mood, symptoms (shortness of breath and fatigue), music/podcast, and exercise

Full description

Music2Move aims to assess if tailored music (music choices that are set to a certain beats per minute and are self-selected by the participant) improves mood while exercising in adults with chronic lung diseases, to ultimately motivate them to engage in physical activity more frequently. This trial will be conducted during their pulmonary rehabilitation session for two consecutive sessions. Researchers will flip a coin for a random order of music condition or no music condition for each participant. Researchers will meet with participants before the trial to collect music selections to be played during the pulmonary rehabilitation session. Mood will be assessed every 2 minutes during the trial using the Feeling Scale to examine the effect of tailored music selections on the participants tolerance for exercise and maximal limit exercise exertion during the session. Heart rate, oxygen level, fatigue, and affect (immediate emotional response), measure of breathlessness (feelings of shortness of breath) will also be assessed before and after the trial to examine the affect that tailored music has on physical measures of exercise. The results of this study could aid in finding motivational tools to improve exercise participation and adherence in adults with chronic respiratory disease.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with a cardiopulmonary disease
• Speaks and understands English

Exclusion criteria

• Require a hearing aid or have a hearing impairment that interferes with their ability to hear music or use headphones during the study.
• Unable to engage in physical activity due to health conditions including neurological or musculoskeletal diseases.
• Require ≥6 liters of supplemental oxygen during pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.
• Younger than 21 years old.
• Older than 85 years old.
• Have uncontrolled anginal symptoms.
• Unable to exercise on a treadmill.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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14 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Music Condition

Experimental group

Description:

3 self-selected music choices to be played during the study

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music Condition

Podcast Condition

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

One self-selected podcast choice to be played during the study

Treatment:

Behavioral: Podcast Condition