Enhancing Therapy Process With Movement Strategies

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Conditions studied: Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders

In brief

Several studies have noted the benefits of exercise programs in improving both mood and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, single bouts of exercise have been shown to improve mood and anxiety. Business applications report ancillary benefits of exercise as well. For example, individuals spontaneously report better ability to approach stimuli and cope with emotional experiences if doing it while exercising. The current study aims to investigate exercise during a therapy session as a potential intervention for enhancing therapeutic learning, particularly ability to better cope with emotional topics and experiencing intense emotions. In this study, patient participants will complete a therapy session while using an exercise machine and a separate therapy session while using a worry stone (control). Both patient participants and therapist participants will make ratings of a variety of items, including ability to discuss emotional topics and comfort in experiencing emotions. Investigators hypothesize that patients will report better ability to discuss emotional topics and more comfort in experiencing emotions following the exercise condition as opposed to the worry stone condition. Investigators also hypothesize that therapist ratings will similarly indicate that patients were better able to discuss emotional topics and experience emotional content during exercise sessions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03140124

Run by

Boston University Charles River Campus

People needed

1

Starts

2015-11-03

Expected to finish

2017-03-06

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults over the age of 18
• Ability to read and provide informed consent
• Current patient or therapist at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD)
• Ability to complete exercise (e.g. no physical injuries)

You may not qualify if…

• Participants considered high risk based on the ACSM risk stratification guidelines (derived from PAR-Q)
• Participants with current knee, ankle, hip, or foot injuries that could impede exercise on the machine or participants with current hand or wrist injuries that could impede use of the worry stone

Where it is running

• Boston University — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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