Performance Anxiety Changes With Exercise

NCT03562312 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: EA114217
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 28
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study investigates the effect of high-intense aerobe exercise training (HIIT) and aerobe exercise of low intensity on clinical and physiological parameters (anxiety, activity, cortisol, alpha amylase, heart rate, heart rate variability, spiroergometry) in patients with Music Performance Anxiety (MPA). Half of the patients will receive HIIT, while the other half will receive aerobe exercise of low intensity.

Conditions

Performance Anxiety

Keywords

MPA; Music Performance Anxiety; HIIT; Exercise; Cortisol; HRV; Heart Rate

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Bühnenangstfragebogen

  Bühnenangstfragebogen is a questionnaire measuring Music Performance Anxiety. It is the German Version of the PAQ (Performance Anxiety Questionnaire)

  Change from Baseline to post therapy (+12 days) and from Baseline to follow-up (+22 days)

Secondary Outcomes (19)

• Screening für somatoforme Störungen (SOMS-7T)

  Change from Baseline to post therapy (+12 days) and from Baseline to follow-up (+22 days)

• Screening für somatoforme Störungen (SOMS-2)

  Only one assessment at baseline to assess differences between the two intervention groups

• NEO-FFI personality inventory

  Only one assessment at baseline to assess differences between the two intervention groups

• Resilienzskala (RS-13)

  Change from Baseline to post therapy (+12 days) and from Baseline to follow-up (+22 days)

• Trierer Inventar zum chronischen Stress (TICS)

  Only one assessment at baseline to assess differences between the two intervention groups

Study Arms (2)

high-intensive aerobe exercise

EXPERIMENTAL

Aerobe bicycle ergometer training within 77-95% of maximum oxygen consumption; duration of each training session: 20 minutes; frequency of training: 6 sessions within 12 days

Other: high-intensive aerobe exercise

low-intensive aerobe exercise

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Aerobe training below 70% of maximum oxygen consumption (including light stretching and simple exercises adapted from yoga figures); duration of training session: 20 minutes; frequency of training: 6 sessions within 12 days

Other: low-intensive aerobe exercise

Interventions

high-intensive aerobe exercise OTHER

Aerobe bicycle ergometer training within 77-95% of maximum oxygen consumption; duration of each training session: 20 minutes; frequency of training: 6 sessions within 12 days

high-intensive aerobe exercise

low-intensive aerobe exercise OTHER

Aerobe training below 70% of maximum oxygen consumption (including light stretching and simple exercises adapted from yoga figures); duration of training session: 20 minutes; frequency of training: 6 sessions within 12 days

low-intensive aerobe exercise

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, Performance only subtype due to DSM-5
• Appropriate abilities to communicate and to complete the questionnaires
• Written informed consent
• Possibility of regular attendance at the training sessions
• Participant is a classical instrumentalist

You may not qualify if:

• Other severe mental conditions than MPA (e.g. schizophrenia, severe depressive episode, addiction)
• Acute suicidality
• Epilepsy or other disorders of the central nervous system (e.g. tumor, encephalitis)
• Contraindications to aerobe exercise Training
• Start or modification of an anxiolytic pharmacotherapy or other therapy within the last four weeks
• Current psychotherapy
• no sufficient capability to consent to trial

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Charite University, Berlin, Germany: lead
• Friede Springer Stiftung, Germany: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte

Berlin, 10117, Germany

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Alexander Schmidt

  Charite University, Berlin, Germany

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 3, 2018
• First Posted: June 19, 2018
• Study Start: May 3, 2018
• Primary Completion: April 14, 2020
• Study Completion: April 14, 2020
• Last Updated: April 15, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Locations

DE (1)