Exercise for Mental Health in Medical Students: The UNSW MedEx Project

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Psychological distress; Mental health; Mental Health - Depression; Mental Health - Anxiety

• Registration Number: ACTRN12615000404527
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of New South Wales

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

Participants must be ambulatory
Participants must be willing to provide written informed consent Participants must be willing to participate in the study and comply with the study requirements over 10 weeks

Exclusion Criteria

Those with current alcohol or substance abuse; Persons unable to comply with study requirements over the course of 10 weeks (including baseline and final assessments); Persons currently undertaking a resistance training or other regular (at least 3 days per week) moderate to high intensity exercise of any kind; Persons with specific contraindications to resistance or high intensity aerobic training exercise such as unstable cardiovascular disease, aortic aneurysm, symptomatic hernias, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, retinal laser surgery within 6 weeks, uncontrolled hypertension or rapidly progressive or terminal illness; Persons on psychotropic drugs or currently undertaking psychological interventions to control stress, anxiety and/or depression.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified