NCT03403881

Movement for Depression - An RCT Assessing the Effects of Physical Activity Promotion for People With MDD

Avaliação de Uma intervenção de promoção Atividade física em Pacientes Com depressão Maior em Atendimento Ambulatorial (MOVEDEP): um Ensaio clínico Randomizado

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized clinical trial that aims to increase physical activity levels in people with depression and to evaluate if the increase on PA levels has impact on clinical and biological measures.

Detailed description

The contacts will be made by face-to-face interviews and telephone calls

Conditions

• Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical activity promotion + TAU	Pedometer: Each patient will receive a pedometer with increasing weekly aims on number of steps during the trial. The number of steps to be achieved starts on 4.000 and increases progressively until the end of the trial. Behavioral strategy based on STD theory, and the assessment of barriers and facilitators of each patient. All patients were receiving treatment as usual
BEHAVIORAL	Control	Weekly call on general health aspects + treatment as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2019-05-01
• First posted: 2018-01-19
• Last updated: 2018-02-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil