Influence of Rebound Exercises or Combined Training on Depression, Anxiety, and other Indicators of Psychological Distress and Quality of Life in Persons Living with HIV
- Conditions
- HIV/AIDSMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- PACTR201904606647880
- Lead Sponsor
- IVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATA
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 72
Participants will be considered eligible if they have a CD4 count of equals to or greater than 200 cells per cubic millimeter. They will be recruited consecutively as they are available through the HIV outpatient clinic of the hospital by a member of the research team. Only participants with psychiatric disorders will be included in the study. The participants must be aged between 18and 55 years.
Patients will be excluded from the study if they are involved in sporting activities or participating in other research that involved exercise intervention. Moreover, individuals with hypertension, coronary artery disease, or myocardial infarction; or who have had cardiac or abdominal surgery within the previous 6 months; or who have a history of fractures of the spine, hip, knee, or ankle joints, as well as those with lower limb weakness and deformities with a loss of protective sensation in the feet will be excluded. Similarly, pregnancy or lactation, and the presence of retinopathy or nephropathy will make a patient ineligible. Finally, subjects who do not consent to participate will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Psychological distress, symptoms depression, symptoms anxiety, quality of life.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Heart rate, Blood pressure, Rate pressure product, pain.