NCT06981702

Effects of Exercıse on Chronotype, Sleep Qualıty and Depressıon Symptom Level in Unıversıty Students

Effects of Exercıse on Chronotype, Sleep Qualıty and Depressıonal Symptom Level in Unıversıty Students Who Exercıse Regularly

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Aydin Adnan Menderes University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aimed this study is to determine the effect of regular exercise program on mood, chronotype and sleep quality in university students.

Detailed description

The study is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design. Demographic information (age, gender, height, weight, education, marital status, occupation, where and with whom they live), additional diseases, medications used, whether they live in a rural or urban area, whether they have had any previous sleep problems, and whether they have had any previous psychiatric diagnoses will be recorded for all subjects in the study. Before the exercise, students will fill out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to determine their sleep quality, the Morningness-Eveningness Scale to assess their chronotype, and the Beck Depression Inventory to measure their depressive symptom levels, and the results will be recorded. All exercises performed by the students for 8 weeks will be monitored by the researcher physiotherapist through weekly short individual or group interviews with the students. At the end of the eighth week, students will fill out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Morningness-Eveningness Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory again, and the results will be recorded.

Conditions

• Depression, Anxiety
• Chronotype
• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	. In our study, demographic information (age, gender, height, weight, education, marital status, occupation, where and with whom they live), additional diseases, medications used, whether they live in a rural or urban area, whether they have had any sleep problems before, and whether they have had any psychiatric diagnoses before will be recorded for all subjects. Before the exercise, students will fill out the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to determine their sleep quality, the Morningness-Eveningness Scale to assess their chronotype, and the Beck Depression Inventory to measure their depressive symptom levels, and the results will be recorded. Students taking the body mechanics course will be asked to do aerobic exercises they learned in class, three days a week, including warm-up and cool-down, for a total of 60 minutes of exercise. The exercises will be performed on the same days and times each week. All exercises performed by the students for 8 weeks will be monitored by the resea

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-06-18
• Primary completion: 2025-07-18
• Completion: 2025-09-26
• First posted: 2025-05-21
• Last updated: 2025-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)