Exercise Therapy With Telerehabilitation in Patients Living With HIV

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Other: Telerehabilitation Group; Other: Control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05342337

2022/024

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the effectiveness of the Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy Approach (BETY) approach with the Telerehabilitation in patients living with HIV (PLWH).

Full description

55 individuals living with HIV (PLWH) were included in the study. Among those individuals, 25 individuals who volunteer to exercise with telerehabilitation will be grouped in the telerehabilitation group. The rest of the individuals who do not participate in the exercise group will be in the control group.

Group 1: Telerehabilitation group: Individuals in the telerehabilitation group attend sessions that last for one and a half hours, 3 days a week for 12 weeks, in the company of an investigator over the videoconference through zoom. The investigator, who provides supervision during the sessions, also participates in the exercises simultaneously.

Group 2: Control group: Individuals in the control group continue their routine drugs.

Both the telerehabilitation exercise group and the control group continue their drug treatments during the 12 weeks of the period.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients living with HIV (PLWH),
• Ages between 18 and 65 years old,
• Participants attend and follow instructions through telerehabilitation.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who use recreational drugs
• Participants who do not adapt to the exercises through telerehabilitation,
• Participants who did not agree to be volunteers are not included in our study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 2 patient groups

Telerehabilitation Group

Experimental group

Description:

The Telerehabilitation program includes a Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy (BETY) approach. BETY approach includes patient education on pain, functional body stabilization exercises (mind-body information management), dance therapy authentic movement (emotion-state information management), and sexual information management.

Treatment:

Other: Telerehabilitation Group

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group participants include those who do not want to receive exercise treatment with telerehabilitation and take their routine medications during the 12 weeks period.

Treatment:

Other: Control group