Peer Support for Increasing Physical Activity in People With Serious Mental Illnesses

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

100

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 31, 2007

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2009

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2009

Conditions
SchizophreniaDepressionBipolar DisorderAnxiety DisordersCognitive DisordersPersonality Disorders
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity intervention with peer support (PA+PS)

Participants in the PA+PS group will have three exercise sessions each week for 4 months, which will include group exercise classes and open gym hours for supervised individual exercise. They will also meet with a peer educator once a week for 15 minutes. Peer educators will provide emotional, informational, instrumental, and appraisal support that is aimed to motivate participants to partake in the exercise sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity intervention without peer support (PA)

Participants in the PA group will attend the three weekly exercise sessions for 4 months but will not attend meetings with the peer educator.

Trial Locations (1)

21205

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

lead

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

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