NCT05177458

Exercise and Therapeutic Exposure

The Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Therapeutic Safety Learning

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Thomas Adams · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The proposed project seeks to demonstrate that a brief bout of aerobic exercise can improve a particular type of therapeutic learning among victimins of interpersonal violence with or without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Detailed description

The proposed study has one aim: Specific Aim: To examine the effects of acute exercise on the consolidation of therapeutic safety learning. It is hypothesized that participants who engage in 30-min of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise following the first session of imaginal exposure will show larger between-session (visit 2 to 3) reductions in heart rate and anxiety during imaginal exposure to trauma narratives compared to participants who engage in light-intensity exercise.

Conditions

• PTSD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental	Behavioral: Moderate Intensity Exercise The moderate-intensity aerobic exercise session will consist of walking or running at a moderate intensity (i.e., between 70-75% maximum heart rate) for 30 minutes on a treadmill.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Control	Behavioral: Low Intensity Exercise Control participants will maintain light-intensity activity (i.e., walking at 40-50% of maximum heart rate) for 30 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-14
• Primary completion: 2023-07-18
• Completion: 2023-07-18
• First posted: 2022-01-04
• Last updated: 2024-08-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States