Physical Exercise and Depressive Symptoms in Moderately or Severely Depressed Adults

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Depressive Symptoms
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nordic Walking

• Registration Number: NCT05703776
• Lead Sponsor: Je Bouge Pour Mon Moral

Brief Summary

This study is a comparative trial comparing the time course of depressive symptoms between moderately and severely depressed participants over a 10-week long exercise program

Detailed Description

Sixty depressed French adults (34 with symptoms of moderate intensity and 26 with symptoms of severe intensity as defined by the PHQ-9 cutting scores) voluntarily participated in our comparative trial.

A control group (waiting list) of n = 16 including 8 severely depressed and 8 moderately depressed participants received no physical exercise.

For the remaining 44 participants (26 with moderate-intensity depressive symptoms and 18 with high-intensity depressive symptoms), two weekly Nordic Walking sessions of 1h were performed for 10 consecutive weeks.

Depressive symptoms were assessed using standard self-report questionnaires at various time points: 1/ enrollment (using the PHQ-9), and then (2) just before the beginning of the exercise intervention (pre-intervention; using the BDI-II), 2/ at the end of Week 5 (mid-intervention; using the BDI-II), and 3/ the day following the end of the exercise program (post-intervention)

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-19
• Primary Completion: 2022-04-15
• Study Completion: 2022-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-10-20
• Status Verified: 2023-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-01-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-01-26
• Study First Posted: 2023-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2023-01-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• PHQ-9 (Kroenke et al., 2001) score of 10 or above

Exclusion Criteria

• medical contraindication to moderate-intensity aerobic exercise
• inability to read French language

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nordic Walking	Nordic Walking	2 weekly sessions of supervised Nordic Walking in a city park with trees, grass, and ponds. Exercise intensity was set at 65%-75% of age-predicted maximal heart rate. The length of training was consecutive 10 weeks

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change in the intensity of depressive symptoms	10 weeks	self-evaluated intensity of depressive symptoms. Was obtained using the standard Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; Beck et al., 1996)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

association JBPMM; 🇫🇷 Nancy, France