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Effects of GPR on Stress and Sleep Quality in Health Sciences

NCT05488015 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2022-10-26

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Summary

Stress is a physiological reaction of our organism to situations that are perceived as threats. Of the different types of stress, emotional stress understood as a feeling of tension in difficult and unmanageable situations is increasingly prevalent in the western population and is responsible for a multitude of physical and psychological health disorders. In the same vein, sleep is a process experienced with a circadian (daily) periodicity in which there is a direct detachment from the environment and is necessary to maintain physiological, psychological and/or behavioral activities correctly.

Both teachers and students in higher education are examples of populations in which emotional stress and problems related to sleep quality have been described, with women being more sensitive to these problems.

The beneficial effects of physical exercise on different cognitive variables have been described, and it has been possible to characterise these effects on the physiological triggers of stress and sleep and, therefore, on alterations in the nervous and hormonal systems. Along these lines, Global Postural Re-education (GPR) is a physical therapy designed to re-establish the coordination of muscle chains and relieve pain. It has been established that GPR is a therapy in which the active participation of the patient is necessary so that it can be framed as physical exercise, with a structured execution protocol.

The overall aim of this study is to test whether a self-treatment therapy with RPG, after a learning and familiarisation phase, performed for 8 weeks, can have positive effects on stress reduction and improvement of sleep quality in female teachers and students of health sciences.

Conditions

  • Stress, Psychological

Interventions

OTHER

Global Postural Re-education (GPR)

GPR intervention lasted 8 weeks. Each week the postures had to be performed on 4 or 5 days.

OTHER

Lifestyle habits

No change in lifestyle habits during the 8-week trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David Varillas Delgado, PhD · Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, crta Pozuelo-Majadahonda km 1.800 PC 28223, Madrid, Spain

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-08-10
Primary Completion
2022-10-10
Completion
2022-10-20

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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