Online Exercise Intervention for Psychosis Patients Receiving Residential Care

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Psychosis
• Interventions: Behavioral: Online exercise; Behavioral: SMS message

• Registration Number: NCT04631952
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

The main objective of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) is to investigate the immediate and long-term effectiveness of 8-week online exercise intervention for people with psychosis receiving residential care.

Detailed Description

The effect will also be evaluated after 6-month and 12-month, anticipate seeing the maintenance of physical activity throughout a year of time.

The secondary objective of this RCT is to investigate if the exercise intervention will be effective in improving the clinical symptoms, cognitive functioning and social functioning of the subjects, and to see if the improvement can be maintained (or improve) over a longer period of time (i.e., 6-month and 12-month).

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-11-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-16
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-17
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-22
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-24
• Study Start: 2022-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-12-01
• Study Completion: 2024-06-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Based on the Fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnosis to have schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders
• Have the ability to understand Chinese
• Able to give informed consent

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Exclusion Criteria

• Severe physical illness (Myocardial Infarction, Hypertension, Fracture, Spinal problems in which exercise may be contraindicated), and seizure disorders.
• Comorbid substance dependence
• Unstable psychotic symptoms
• Any history of brain trauma or organic brain disease
• Known history of intellectual disability or special school attendance
• Other mental conditions that requires other treatment priorities, e.g., suicidal risk.
• Other medical conditions that severely limits participation, comprehension, or adherence to the treatment or assessment e.g., epilepsy, dementia, terminal medical illness.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Online exercise	Online exercise	SMS messages on encouraging active lifestyle plus an online exercise video
SMS message	SMS message	SMS messages on encouraging active lifestyle

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Exercise level	6 months and 12 months	Measured by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, a higher MET calculated from the scale indicates a higher exercise level

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Severity of psychotic symptoms	6 and 12 months	Measured by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, a higher score indicates a more severe level of psychotic symptoms

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Hong Kong; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong