Promoting Wellbeing for Women With Depression: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of an Exercise Programme

University of Nottingham

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Depression

Treatments

Behavioral: Psychosocial support exercise programme

Behavioral: Prescribed exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00546221

07105

Funder's ID: 293/350

Ethics ref ID: 07/H0401/110

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators want to find out if their specially designed exercise programme will be more successful at helping women with depression to feel better than a basic programme will, by measuring the effect the programme has on mood, physical health, and social wellbeing. Their specially designed exercise programme will involve physical exertion at the participants' chosen level of intensity (how hard the body has to work during exercise), and will include motivational support. By contrast, the basic exercise programme will be at an intensity recommended by national guidelines, of the type that may be prescribed by a general practitioner (GP), and will include no extra motivational support.

Enrollment

43 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 90 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Living with depression
Aged 18 (age at first session of programme)
Female
Living in the community
Resident within Nottinghamshire (personal address has Nottinghamshire postcode)

Exclusion criteria

Women who, at the time of the study, are unable to participate on account of any injury or physical health problem that precludes their participation
Women participating in research that may undermine the scientific basis of the study