Walking for Stress Reduction

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Subjects

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Walking

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01716832

Walking_Stress_Reduction

Details and patient eligibility

About

The effectiveness of a mindfulness walking program is tested in subjects with a high level of subjectively perceived stress.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy men and women between 18 and 65 years
• Increased level of stress (visual analog scale >40 mm (0-100))

Exclusion criteria

• Regular walking training in the last 6 weeks
• Medical therapy with psychopharmacological drugs
• Regular mindfulness based meditations/exercises in the last 6 weeks
• CAM therapies against stress in the last 6 weeks
• medium or severe chronic diseases
• Stress due to chronic diseases
• Acute disease at inclusion
• Not being able to walk

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness walking

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Walking

No intervention (waiting list)

No Intervention group