NCT05978921

Physical Exercise in Patients With Schizophrenia

Effect of Physical Strength Exercise on Telomeric Length as a Marker of Aging and Early Death in Patients With Schizophrenia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Salamanca · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomised clinical trial on a cohort of subjects with a diagnosis of schizophrenia of legal age, of both sexes, recruited in the mental health clinics of the Salamanca University Assistance Complex and who will be randomly distributed into two groups (intervention and control). The main objective of the study is to determine the effect of physical exercise on telomere size in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. As secondary objectives in this group of patients we will try to: Evaluate the influence of strength training on cognition and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. To quantify the impact of strength training on frailty. To determine the effect of strength training on quality of life. To study the possible correlation between physical parameters (frailty) and telomere length. To establish the importance of polymorphisms in telomerase genes, an enzyme involved in the maintenance of telomere length.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Physical Activity
• Telomere Shortening
• Premature Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Strength physical exercise programme	12 multi-joint strength exercises will be developed. Participants will be taught the rating scale of perceived exertion (RPE) based on the number of repetitions in reserve (RIR). Participants will be asked that during the performance of each of the exercises they must perceive an effort between 7-8 within the overall score of the scale (0-10; 0 = no effort at all and 10 = cannot perform one more repetition, i.e. maximal effort). When subjects perform the 12 repetitions with lower perceived exertion than the set effort in two consecutive sessions with full range of motion the training load will be increased by about 2-10% following the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines and reassessed using the RIR-based RPE. Patients in the usual treatment group will continue to participate in their existing rehabilitation programmes, but will not be included in the strength training programme.
OTHER	Normal life	Normal life and carry out all the activities they have been doing previously.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-01
• Completion: 2024-05-01
• First posted: 2023-08-07
• Last updated: 2024-01-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain