Physical Activity in Insurance Medicine: Effects on Patients With Psychiatric Disorders

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Depressive Disorder; Somatoform Disorder; Personality Disorder; Anxiety Disorder
• Interventions: Behavioral: Physical activity

• Registration Number: NCT01928264
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Brief Summary

We will conduct a randomized control trial to investigate whether and to what extent regular and guided group physical activity over 12 weeks (2 sessions à 1 hour/week) improves physical fitness and (physio-)psychological functions (like subjective sleep, mental toughness, perceived stress, self-efficacy, etc.), as well as participation skills and the ability to work, in claimants for a disability pension due to psychiatric disorders, whose ability to work had recently been assessed by means of a psychiatric expert opinion. The control group is designed very similar and implies predominantly sedentary leisure time group activities (e.g. playing board games, doing handicrafts). Measures will be performed at baseline, post-test, and at follow ups three and twelve months after post-test, some variables will additionally be assessed 4-weekly during the intervention. We expect that intervention group participants will report and show, respectively, more improved physical fitness, (physio-)psychological functioning and participations skills, as well as increased ability to work, compared to the control group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-20
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-23
• Primary Completion: 2014-04
• Study Completion: 2014-04
• Status Verified: 2015-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-10-14
• Last Update Posted: 2015-10-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 13

Inclusion Criteria

• Claimants for a disability pension due to a mental disorder, whose ability to work has been recently assessed by means of a psychiatric expert opinion
• Both genders
• 18-55 years old
• Clinical diagnosis of depressive disorder, somatoform disorder, anxiety disorder, personality disorder
• Sufficient competence in understanding, speaking and reading German
• Sufficient cognitive, emotional and social level of functioning to be able to participate in a group
• Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire without evidence for reduction
• or: Physical activity readiness certificated by the general practitioner
• Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Comorbidity with a somatic disorder that limits the ability for physical exercises
• Pregnancy
• Ongoing disturbance of the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Physical activity	Physical activity	Physical activity group program over 12 weeks; 1 hour sessions, 2 times a week

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in the ability to work (h/d / %)	baseline and 15 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in the ability to work (h/d / %)	baseline and 12 weeks
Change in participation skills (sum score)	baseline and 12 weeks
Change in psychological functioning (sum scores)	baseline and 12 weeks
Change in subjective sleep quality (sum score)	baseline and 4 weeks
Change in Clinical Global Impression (sum score)	baseline and 12 weeks
Change in Leisure-time physical activity (sum score)	baseline and 12 weeks
Change in self-efficacy (sum score)	baseline and 4 weeks
Change in subjectively perceived stress (sum score)	baseline and 4 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel; 🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland