NCT04875494

Effects of Physical Exercise Versus Group Therapy on Self-esteem Among Domestic Violence Victims

Physical Exercise and Self-esteem: a Randomized Controlled Trial in Domestic Violence Victims

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current study is a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of 6 weeks of physical exercise training versus group therapy on self-esteem as well as on the various subdomains of physical self-esteem among women who have experienced domestic violence within the last two months at the time of data collection

Detailed description

The present study design includes three arms (two intervention arms): Physical Exercise (Group A), Counseling/Support Group (Group B), and No Intervention (Control, Group C). Random allocation to each group was done in a 1:1:1 ratio at the end of an initial telephone interview by one of the authors. A permutated block design with a block size of three was used. For each participant in Groups A and B, the assigned intervention was started the week following the initial interview, and lasted 6 weeks.

Conditions

• Domestic Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Counseling/support group therapy	6 weeks of counseling group therapy; 2 sessions of 30 min each week, with a psychologist and two former victims
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Exercise	6 weeks of physical exercise training; 2 sessions of 30 min each week, with an instructor

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-24
• Primary completion: 2021-02-27
• Completion: 2021-04-05
• First posted: 2021-05-06
• Last updated: 2021-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France