The CARE Project: Collaborative Adolescent Running Experience
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Enrollment
- 4
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- The number of completed running sessions
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study is being completed to see if participants activity levels may have an impact as a treatment for depression, or depressive symptoms.
Eligible participants will be enrolled and have an 8-week running intervention three times each week.
The study hypothesizes that adolescents with Psychiatric disorders that are experiencing depressive symptoms will participate in a supported running intervention.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 13 Years to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Psychiatric disorders that are experiencing depressive symptoms (defined by the protocol)
- •Must have a smart phone
- •Parents/guardians will be advised to discuss their child's participation in the intervention with the participant's primary care physician
Exclusion Criteria
- •Adolescents with unstable cardiac, pulmonary, endocrine or renal disorders
- •Adolescents with previous injuries or other conditions that may impact the safety of a running intervention
Arms & Interventions
Exercise -Running
Intervention: Exercise -Running (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The number of completed running sessions
Time Frame: weeks 1-8 during treatment period
Feasibility and acceptability of the study will be the completion of running sessions based on the Fitbit and or self-report.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in depression severity as reported by The Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A)(Baseline (prior to treatment), 8 weeks (post intervention))
Investigators
Richard Dopp
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Michigan
