Physical Exercise and Diet Management in Vitamin D Deficient Females

Badr University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vitamin D Deficiency

Treatments: Behavioral: Sun Exposure; Other: Home Based Physical Exercise; Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 Supplements; Other: Diet Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06114381

BUC-IACUC-231015-43

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to determine if home based physical exercises protocol and Diet management has an effect on functional performance and depression level related to vitamin D deficiency in females.

Full description

This is a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of home based physical exercises in comparison to Diet management, sun exposure and vitamin D supplements on functional performance and depression level in females with vitamin D deficiency.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects whose age ranged from 19-25 years.
• All participants have pre laboratory results with vitamin D deficiency less than 25 nmol/L and have been lasted for 6 months
• All participated subjects were female studying at Al-Jouf university, Al- Qurrayyat-Female Branch.

Exclusion criteria

• Chronic illness, liver, renal endocrine or autoimmune diseases.
• Patients who suffered from any cardiopulmonary diseases.
• History of fractures or any neuro-musculoskeletal disorders.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 4 patient groups

Home Based Physical Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

This group composed of 30 participants who will receive full body physical exercise 6 days per week in addition to sun exposure as well as their vitamin D supplement for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sun Exposure

Other: Home Based Physical Exercise

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 Supplements

Diet management group

Experimental group

Description:

This group composed of 30 participants who will receive dietary management and sun exposure as well as their vitamin D supplement for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sun Exposure

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 Supplements

Other: Diet Management

Sun Exposure and supplements

Experimental group

Description:

This group composed of 30 participants who will receive only sun exposure as well as their vitamin D supplement for 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sun Exposure

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D3 Supplements

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group composed of 30 participants who didn't receive any intervention