NCT05533268

Effect of Mental and Physical Training on Blood Pressure

Efficacy of Mental and Physical Training on Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate Among Physically Inactive Young Adults With Elevated and High Blood Pressure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Elevated blood pressure or prehypertension is highly associated with increased risk of developing hypertension, cardiovascular event, and type II diabetes. Many physically inactive young adults, particularly in Malaysia have blood pressure higher than normal range, therefore it is important to control the blood pressure within normal range as prophylactic measure. This experimental research will be carried out to study the effect of physical training (aerobic exercise) and mental training (mindfulness meditation) with diet as a control group on the systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and resting heart rate among young adult with elevated blood pressure living a sedentary lifestyle. Participant will be divided into 2 experimental groups (mental and physical training) and 1 control group (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension -DASH diet plan) who need to complete the prescribed intervention for 6 weeks. Results will be analysed by repeated measures ANOVA followed by post-hic test.

Conditions

• Elevated Blood Pressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mental training	Mental training (guided mindfulness meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn for 20 minutes, 3 times per week.
OTHER	Physical training	Physical training (continuous moderate-intensity training at 40-60% of participants' heart rate reserve for 20 minutes excluding warm-up/cool-down, 3 times per week.
OTHER	Mental & physical training	Mental and physical training (combination of mindfulness mediation for 20-minutes, 3 times per week and continuous moderate-intensity training for 20 minutes, 3 times per week.
OTHER	DASH diet	DASH diet ( (more vegetables, fruits and low-fat dairy foods and moderate amounts of whole grains, fish, poultry and nuts; and less than 3 grams of sodium daily) for 6-weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-25
• Primary completion: 2023-01-18
• Completion: 2023-01-19
• First posted: 2022-09-09
• Last updated: 2023-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Malaysia