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Step Away From Depression - Evaluation of a Pedometer Intervention With Inpatients With Major Depression (SAD)

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Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status

Completed

Conditions

Depression

Treatments

Device: Pedometer

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02850341
SAD (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of pedometers can help depressive inpatients in psychiatric clinics to increase their level of physical activity. Therefore patients are given a pedometer and instructions how to raise their level of daily steps. Intervention group is compared with a control group that is receiving treatment-as-usual. The intervention is hypothesized to increase number of daily steps and have positive effects on mood, depression and anxiety.

Enrollment

292 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Major Depression, moderate to severe as main diagnosis
  • Inpatient status
  • Prospected inpatient treatment of at least 4 weeks
  • Able to understand german

Exclusion criteria

  • Physical disease or disability that makes it impossible to reach the goal 5000 steps per day
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Dementia
  • Psychotic Depression
  • Pregnancy
  • Acute suicidality
  • Substance dependancies with actual consumption (except nicotine)
  • Current pedometer-use
  • More than 10.000 steps per day

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

292 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group
Experimental group
Description:
Patients receive a pedometer and instructions how to raise their physical activity
Treatment:
Device: Pedometer
Control group
No Intervention group
Description:
Patients receive treatment-as-usual

Trial contacts and locations

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