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

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00546221
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 18, 2007
Last Update Posted : March 3, 2011
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
Burdett Trust for Nursing
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Nottingham City Primary Care Trust
Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust
Information provided by:
University of Nottingham

Study Description
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Brief Summary:
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.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Depression Behavioral: Psychosocial support exercise programme Behavioral: Prescribed exercise Phase 2

Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 43 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of a Preferred Intensity Exercise Programme to Improve Physiological and Associated Psychological, Social, and Wellbeing Outcomes of Women Living With Depression
Study Start Date : November 2007
Actual Primary Completion Date : May 2009
Actual Study Completion Date : May 2009

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Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Psychosocial support
Comprising 22 participants engaging in the experimental exercise programme, exercising with psychosocial support.
 Behavioral: Psychosocial support exercise programme
The experimental arm will experience 12 sessions of intervention, at a rate of three sessions a week for four weeks, exercising in groups of ten women. Each session will comprise: fifteen minutes of psychosocial and motivational support, run by a qualified rehabilitation psychologist and overseen by a qualified health psychologist; a half hour preferred intensity exercise session run by a qualified sports physiotherapist. Participants preferred intensity (chosen exertion level) will be established using the Borg RPE scale (Borg G 1998).
Active Comparator: Prescribed exercise
Comprising 21 participants engaging in a programme of typical prescribed exercise.
 Behavioral: Prescribed exercise
This group will experience 12 sessions of intervention, at a rate of three sessions a week for four weeks, exercising in groups of ten women. Each session will be an half hour exercise session, at a typically (GP) prescribed level, designed in accordance with national guidelines and run by a qualified sports physiotherapist.


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. The primary outcome measure is score on the BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory version 2). [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]

Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Resting heart rate. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]
  2. GHQ12. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]
  3. The SF-12vII. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]
  4. The Rosenberg self-esteem scale. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]
  5. Quality of life in depression scale. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]
  6. The multidimensional scale of perceived social support. [ Time Frame: At the plenary session of the programmes. ]

Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 90 Years   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

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
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Locations
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United Kingdom
Nottingham City Primary Care Trust
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Nottingham
Burdett Trust for Nursing
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Nottingham City Primary Care Trust
Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Patrick Callaghan, RN BSc MSc PhD CPsychol University of Nottingham
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth B Khalil, BSc MSc PhD (Cant.) University of Nottingham
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Responsible Party: Mr Paul Cartledge, University of Nottingham
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00546221    
Other Study ID Numbers: 07105
Funder's ID: 293/350
Ethics ref ID: 07/H0401/110
First Posted: October 18, 2007    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: March 3, 2011
Last Verified: March 2011
Keywords provided by University of Nottingham:
Depression
Mental health
Exercise
 Prescribed exercise
Physical health
Social wellbeing
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Depression
Depressive Disorder
Behavioral Symptoms
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders