NCT03800368

Exercise and Overnight Motor Sequence Task

12-week Aerobic-Anaerobic Transition Exercise Intervention and Overnight Sleep-dependent Procedural Memory Consolidation in Patients With Schizophrenia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to compare the changes of the sleep-related memory functions in patients with psychosis after they have completed the 12-week high-intensity exercise intervention, the 12-week low-intensity exercise intervention, or the 12-week controlled non-exercise intervention respectively. Fifty-one patients with psychosis, patients who received either the high-intensity exercise or low-intensity exercise as intervention shown a significant improvement to their impaired sleep-related memory function, while those who received non-exercise intervention has no such improvement. Moreover, high-intensity exercise may have a more prominent effect compare to low-intensity exercise.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
• Psychotic Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	Indoor cycling exercise intervention
OTHER	Non-exercise	Psycho-education

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-21
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2019-01-11
• Last updated: 2019-01-11