NCT05837351

The CARE (Collaborative Adolescent Running Experience) Project

The CARE Project: Collaborative Adolescent Running Experience

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being completed to see if participants activity levels may have an impact as a treatment for depression, or depressive symptoms. Eligible participants will be enrolled and have an 8-week running intervention three times each week. The study hypothesizes that adolescents with Psychiatric disorders that are experiencing depressive symptoms will participate in a supported running intervention.

Conditions

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise -Running	At baseline participants will wear a Fitbit for one week and attend the Runner's Assessment. After this the participant will begin to run 3 times per week for eight weeks. Every week, participation in a virtual support group with the physical therapist, research coordinator, and other research staff will be expected. Rest-activity cycles' data will be monitored; if at any point the runner is not able to complete 3 runs per week, participants will be encouraged to contact research staff the issues for this (such as medical problem or scheduling difficulty) and formulate plans to remediate the situation. Participants that would like to continue the treatment for an additional eight weeks will have additional data collected. Participants will also wear the Fitbit through-out the study and complete surveys during the study and have blood drawn.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-05
• Primary completion: 2024-04-30
• Completion: 2024-04-30
• First posted: 2023-05-01
• Last updated: 2024-06-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States