NCT05342337

Exercise Therapy With Telerehabilitation in Patients Living With HIV

Investigation of the Effectiveness of Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy Approach With Telerehabilitation in Patients Living With HIV

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasan Kalyoncu University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To investigate the effectiveness of the Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy Approach (BETY) approach with the Telerehabilitation in patients living with HIV (PLWH).

Detailed description

55 individuals living with HIV (PLWH) were included in the study. Among those individuals, 25 individuals who volunteer to exercise with telerehabilitation will be grouped in the telerehabilitation group. The rest of the individuals who do not participate in the exercise group will be in the control group. Group 1: Telerehabilitation group: Individuals in the telerehabilitation group attend sessions that last for one and a half hours, 3 days a week for 12 weeks, in the company of an investigator over the videoconference through zoom. The investigator, who provides supervision during the sessions, also participates in the exercises simultaneously. Group 2: Control group: Individuals in the control group continue their routine drugs. Both the telerehabilitation exercise group and the control group continue their drug treatments during the 12 weeks of the period.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telerehabilitation Group	The Telerehabilitation program includes a Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy (BETY) approach. BETY approach includes patient education on pain, functional body stabilization exercises (mind-body information management), dance therapy authentic movement (emotion-state information management), and sexual information management. Telerehabilitation group participate in the sessions that last for one and a half hours, 3 days a week for 12 weeks, video conference over the Zoom program. The investigator, who provides supervision during the sessions, also participates in the exercises simultaneously.
OTHER	Control group	The control group participants include those who do not want to receive exercise treatment with telerehabilitation and take their routine medications during the 12 weeks period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-02
• Primary completion: 2022-09-01
• Completion: 2023-05-05
• First posted: 2022-04-22
• Last updated: 2023-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)