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Virtual reality exposure therapy as a means of health promotion in university: a randomized clinical trial

Not Applicable
Conditions
Sedentary
cardiovascular diseases
back pain
C10.597.617.232
F01.829.458.705
Registration Number
RBR-69wpmz
Lead Sponsor
niversidade Federal do Paraná - Setor de Ciências da Saúde/ SCS
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruitment completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Healthy students of the Federal University of Parana Coastal Sector; of both sexes; aged between 18 and 30 years.

Exclusion Criteria

comorbidities that interfered with evaluation of the participants as chronic, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal or neurological disease; students undergoing surgery last year; students that they had no time availability.

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Improves motor skills verified by the tests of sit and reach, abdominal strength test, push-up test, run test and going back and fifty metros running test from the significant variation of finding at least 5% in pre and post-intervention measurements;Found outcome: significant improvement (p <0.05) motor capacity verified by means of abdominal strength tests, arm flexion test, running test and going back and running test fifty meters. However, there was no change in the sit and reach test (p = 0.45).
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Increased awareness of physical fitness checked by Questionnaire IFIS - International Fitness Scale, improved physical activity level verified by the IPAQ long version and improved spinal function verified by the stress tests of the test trunk extensor muscles modified Biering-Sorensen test of endurance of the flexor muscles of the trunk and test resistance of the lateral muscles of the trunk by the side bridge test. Changes will be detected as a significant change of at least 5% in the pre and post-intervention measurements.;Outcome found: there was no significant improvement in the perception of physical fitness (p = 0.33) verified by IFIS Questionnaire - International Fitness Scale, no significant improvement (p = 0.24) of the physical activity level verified by version IPAQ long and significant improvement in functionality to the spine only of the trunk extensor muscle endurance tests (p = 0.02) and flexor trunk (p = 0.01).
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