NCT06671301

The Impact of Lifestyle Medicine on the Sense Of Coherence and Biological Age in a Community Sample

The Impact of Lifestyle Medicine on the Sense of Coherence and the Biological Age, in a Community Sample.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This two-arm, pilot, cross-over randomized controlled trial took place at Diabetes Laboratory, First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece the from February 2024 to June of 2024. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital(Protocol no 2401/February 27,2024)and was consistent with the Helsinki Declaration for human studies.

Detailed description

Pythagorean Self-Awareness Intervention (PSAI) to a sample of community volunteers without pre-existing pathology, with the aim of evaluating the effectiveness of PSAI compared to a control group. Primary goals are to improve lifestyle (6 pillars), increase sense of coherence, improve telomere length and reduce perceived stress. Secondary goals are to reduce negative emotions, fatigue, neuroticism and inflammation. Also, the increase in self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, health locus of control, satisfaction with life and finally the improvement of memory and blood pressure. Measurements will take place in both groups before and after the intervention and included: Self-report questionnaires for measuring psychometric and lifestyle factors, cognitive assessment, body measurements, hair cortisol concentrations and blood sampling for telomere length.

Conditions

• Healthy Volunteers Only
• Healthy Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	PSAI	Holistic stress management program implementing the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine
OTHER	Usual Care	Usual care without specific treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-06-01
• Completion: 2024-06-05
• First posted: 2024-11-04
• Last updated: 2024-11-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece