NCT03591211

Bio-psycho-social Pathways Underlying the Effects of Qigong Among Comorbid Depressed Elderly With Chronic Conditions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Depression and chronic medical conditions are common in older adults. Qigong is increasingly documented to have anti-depressive effects for older adults. Nevertheless, the scientific concepts behind qigong remain a mystery. To fill the knowledge gap, the neurobiological mechanism of the effects of qigong was explored. In addition, the benefits of qigong on subjective well-being, functional independence, sleep quality, mobility, and muscle strength were also tested. After random assignment, intervention group (n = 14) went through individual qigong exercise twice a week and for 12 weeks,whereas control group (n = 16) was involved in cognitive training activities with mobilization elements. The psychosocial, physical, and neurobiological outcomes of the two groups were compared.

Conditions

• Chronic Disease
• Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Qigong Training	Eight-Section Brocades; participants were trained individually.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Training	Cognitive Training of Memory and Executive Function with Activities requiring Mobilization

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-31
• Completion: 2018-02-28
• First posted: 2018-07-19
• Last updated: 2018-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong