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Retraining Body and Brain to Conquer Compulsions

NCT03067636 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 69

Last updated 2022-04-06

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Summary

Following the realisation that many aspects of the way we live our life, such as our diet, activity levels, and amount of screen time, can have a potent impact on mental health and brain functioning 'lifestyle' based interventions have become topical in medical research. In particular, much scientific attention has been devoted to the impact of physical exercise and various stress reduction techniques on mood disorders. We aim to extend this work and investigate their impact on compulsivity.

We will do this by conducting a pilot proof-of-principal intervention study. The study will compare the impact of eight-weeks of:

1. regular physical exercise + stress management activity A,
2. regular physical exercise + stress management activity B,
3. lifestyle as usual.

The participant cohort will be adults who endorse mild-moderate behavioural compulsivity on one of the following domains:

* drinking alcohol
* gambling
* eating
* washing or cleaning
* checking
* ordering or arranging objects

Conditions

  • Compulsive Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical Exercise

Physical exercise: Amount of time exercising gradually titrated from 90-minutes in week one to 180-minutes in week eight. Intensity titrated concurrently from 40 - 60% VO2 max in week one to 40 - 90% VO2 max in week eight. Eight week gym membership provided to all participants to facilitate engagement in exercise.

BEHAVIORAL

Stress management training A

Stress management training A: Daily stress management training for eight weeks with training activity delivered via app. Session lengths titrated from 10-minutes per day in the first week to 20-minutes per day in week eight.

BEHAVIORAL

Stress management training B

Stress management training B: Daily stress management training for eight weeks with training activity delivered via app. Session lengths titrated from 10-minutes per day in the first week to 20-minutes per day in week eight.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-06-01
Primary Completion
2021-12-01
Completion
2021-12-20

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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