NCT03140124

Enhancing Therapy Process With Movement Strategies

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston University Charles River Campus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Several studies have noted the benefits of exercise programs in improving both mood and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, single bouts of exercise have been shown to improve mood and anxiety. Business applications report ancillary benefits of exercise as well. For example, individuals spontaneously report better ability to approach stimuli and cope with emotional experiences if doing it while exercising. The current study aims to investigate exercise during a therapy session as a potential intervention for enhancing therapeutic learning, particularly ability to better cope with emotional topics and experiencing intense emotions. In this study, patient participants will complete a therapy session while using an exercise machine and a separate therapy session while using a worry stone (control). Both patient participants and therapist participants will make ratings of a variety of items, including ability to discuss emotional topics and comfort in experiencing emotions. Investigators hypothesize that patients will report better ability to discuss emotional topics and more comfort in experiencing emotions following the exercise condition as opposed to the worry stone condition. Investigators also hypothesize that therapist ratings will similarly indicate that patients were better able to discuss emotional topics and experience emotional content during exercise sessions.

Detailed description

The current study aims to investigate exercise during a therapy session as a potential intervention for enhancing therapeutic learning, particularly ability to better cope with emotional topics and experiencing intense emotions.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorders
• Mood Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise	Each participant will be provided with an ActiveLife Trainer to use during visit 2 or 3. The ActiveLife Trainer is a stationary pedaling machine that one can use while seated. It was designed to be used while working and makes very little noise. It is a safe, low-impact physical activity machine with adjustable resistance. The machine communicates via Bluetooth with the Wahoo Fitness app which records activity metrics such as distance cycled. Participants will be provided with a tablet on which the Wahoo Fitness app will track their exercise during the session. The ActiveLife Trainer has been used in numerous research studies (Carr et al., 2014; Botter et al., 2013; Burford et al., 2013; Carr et al., 2013).
BEHAVIORAL	Worry Stone	For the worry stone condition, both the participants will rub a stone for the duration of the session. Each participant will be provided with a worry stone to rub during visit 2 or 3. These are small sooth stones that fit in the palm of one's hand.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-03
• Primary completion: 2017-03-06
• Completion: 2017-03-06
• First posted: 2017-05-04
• Last updated: 2017-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States