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CompletedNCT03909308

Beach Tennis And Hypertension Study

Effects of a Beach Tennis Training Session on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Individuals: a Randomized Clinical Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24 (actual)
Sponsor
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
35 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of a beach tennis session on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure in adults with hypertension. The main hypothesis is that a single session of beach tennis would decrease ambulatory blood pressure compared with a non-exercise control session.

Detailed description

In this randomized crossover trial, participants performed randomly assigned two experimental sessions: a beach tennis session and a non-exercise control session. The beach tennis session started with a standardized 5-minute warm-up consisting of basic techniques, followed by three 12-minute beach tennis matches with 2-minute intervals between them. Heart rate and rating of perceived exertion were continuously recorded during the beach tennis session, and enjoyment was measured after the beach tennis session. The control session was performed in seated rest. Both experimental sessions lasted 45 minutes. Ambulatory blood pressure was measured continuously for 24-hour after sessions.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALBeach Tennis sessionThe Beach Tennis training session will be composed by a warm up of 5 min of BT in which technical exercises (i.e., serve, volley, forehand and backhand) will be performed After that, 3 BT small games of 12 min with a 2 minute interval between games using the conventional rules of sport will be performed. Before the session and after each small game, data regarding heart rate, blood pressure and rate perceived exertion will be recorded.

Timeline

Start date
2019-02-01
Primary completion
2020-03-31
Completion
2020-03-31
First posted
2019-04-10
Last updated
2021-01-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03909308. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.