NCT00251108

Fitness Training After Traumatic Brain Injury

The Efficacy of a Supervised Fitness Centre-Based Exercise Programme Compared to an Unsupervised Home-Based Exercise Programme on Improving Fitness and Psychosocial Outcomes in a Traumatic Brain Injured Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (planned)
• Sponsor: Sydney South West Area Health Service · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this project is to compare the efficacy of two different fitness exercise programmes on improving fitness and psychosocial functioning in a traumatic brain injured population. We hypothesize that a supervised fitness-centre based exercise programme, compared to an unsupervised home-based exercise programme will show significant improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, depression and community integration.

Detailed description

The objective of this project is to compare a three-month supervised fitness centre-based exercise programme to a 3-month unsupervised home-based exercise programme on discharge from inpatient rehabilitation on improving cardiorespiratory fitness and psychosocial functioning in a traumatic brain injured population. We plan to carry out a multi-centre, assessor blinded, randomised controlled trial with a parallel group design to compare the two interventions. We hypothesise that the supervised fitness-centre based programme will provide significantly better outcomes, and that these gains will not only be evident on completion of the programme, but will be maintained on follow-up, thereby demonstrating that investment in a supervised exercise programme can provide beneficial long-term effects.

Conditions

• Craniocerebral Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cardiorespiratory fitness training

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-10-01
• Completion: 2007-03-01
• First posted: 2005-11-09
• Last updated: 2007-03-01

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Australia