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Moderate-to-Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity and Severe Mental Illness
Sponsor: University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Summary
Twenty-five percent of the population worldwide will experience a severe mental illness during their lifetime (World Health Organization, 2017). These people present strong barriers to adhering to moderate and vigorous-intensity continuous training. It is fundamental to overcome these barriers for practicing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by adding behavioural change techniques into physical activity interventions (Maurus et al., 2023), in order to design and implement sustainable interventions that empower people to engage in it. The overall aims will be to evaluate the efficacy of +moviMENT, a 28-week intervention program, designed to increase MVPA time in patients with SMI, and to assess the effects of the program on a range of indicators, in comparison with a 'usual care' control group.
Official title: Moderate-to-Vigorous Intensity Physical Activity as a Tool for Severe Mental Illness Recuperation Process: Study Protocol for a Pragmatic Controlled Clinical Trial (+moviMENT)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 69 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2024-06-01
Completion Date
2026-01-31
Last Updated
2025-09-29
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity program (+moviMENT)
The intervention comprises 16 weeks of group based High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), with transition to individual community based Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA) over the next 12 weeks - for a total intervention period of 28 weeks.
Locations (1)
University of Vic
Vic, Barcelona, Spain