The Resistance Exercise Training for Worry Trial

University of Limerick

Status: Completed

Conditions: Analogue Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Resistance exercise training; Other: Wait-list

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04116944

2017_03_18_EHS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This protocol details the full methods of two parallel, randomized controlled trials of an eight-week resistance exercise training intervention compared to a wait-list control condition among young adults with and without analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Full description

Recent meta-analyses support the chronic anxiolytic effects of resistance exercise training among women with diagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder. However, the effects of resistance exercise training among those with subclinical, or analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder is unknown. This protocol details the full methods of two parallel, randomized controlled trials of an eight-week resistance exercise training intervention compared to a wait-list control condition among young adults with and without analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder status was determined using validated cut-scores for both the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire Generalized Anxiety Disorder sub-scale score of 6 or greater, and the Penn State Worry Questionnaire score of 45 or greater. The ecologically-valid resistance exercise training was designed according to World Health Organization and American College of Sports Medicine guidelines.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria were age 18-40y; no medical contraindication to safe participation in resistance exercise training; and no current pregnancy or lactation.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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95 participants in 4 patient groups

Analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder Resistance Training

Experimental group

Description:

Resistance exercise training among young adults with analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resistance exercise training

Analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder Wait-List

Other group

Description:

8-week wait-list control condition among young adults with analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatment:

Other: Wait-list

Non-Analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder Resistance Training

Experimental group

Description:

Resistance exercise training among young adults without analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resistance exercise training

Non-Analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder Wait-List

Other group

Description:

8-week wait-list control condition among young adults with analogue-Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatment:

Other: Wait-list