Music Pacing in Pediatric Exercise Testing

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exercise Testing With Music Pacing

Treatments: Other: Music listening

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01576913

SHEBA-12-9340-GDR-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study hypothesis: Music pacing improves the quality of exercise testing in children.

Children tend to cycle in a non-constant pace during exercise testing, which might make the test less reliable.

20 boys will perform two exercise tests on a cycle ergometer. One test will be done with constant tempoed music, and the other without. Different parameters will be checked including pedaling cadence, aerobic fitness, level of work load obtained.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• male sex
• currently and generally healthy

Exclusion criteria

• presence of chronic disease/ medication use
• BMI above 85%
• trained/competitive cyclists

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

Music pacing

Active Comparator group

Description:

Exercise testing with music pacing

Treatment:

Other: Music listening

No music pacing

No Intervention group

Description:

Exercise testing without music pacing