NCT05808517

An Integration of Tai Chi and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Sleep Disturbance in Older Adults

An Integration of Tai Chi (TC) and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Sleep Disturbance in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators designed an RCT aimed at 1) exploring the effectiveness of combining TC with rTMS for synergistically improving sleep disturbances in community-dwelling older adults, 2) investigating the mediating roles of arousal states as the underlying mechanism of the potential beneficial effects, and 3) evaluating the feasibility and safety to inform the clinical practice. The investigators hypothesized that integrating TC and rTMS can affect the different dimensions of the arousal system to improve sleep disturbances with optimized clinical outcomes.

Conditions

• Sleep Disturbance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai Chi	Tai Chi (TC) is a traditional Chinese exercise, also known as a mind-body exercise. It is suitable as an alternative or supplementary form of routine physical exercise for older adults. TC focuses on gentle and rhythmical movements while maintaining a meditative state. Low to moderate activities have benefits to improve sleep disturbances in older adults. In addition, growing evidence widely supports meditation as a potential intervention to improve sleep disturbances through reducing repetitive negative thoughts such as worry and rumination.
OTHER	repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	The brain stimulation technique repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) provides the opportunity to non-invasively modulate cortical excitability. In general, low-frequency rTMS (≤ 1 Hz) is thought to inhibit cortical excitability.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2023-04-11
• Last updated: 2023-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong