Prevention of Comorbid Depression and Obesity in Attention-deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

PHASE2CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

207

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 13, 2017

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2020

Study Completion Date

August 31, 2020

Conditions
Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity DisorderDepressionObesity
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Bright light therapy

Mobile therapeutic light (10.000 LUX, white light without UV light), daily (except Sunday) for 30 min in the morning or evening for 10 weeks in total at home provided by a bright light therapy device (Philips EnergyLight HF 3419). Monitoring and feedback will be realized with the m-Health system comprising of a smartphone equipped with the m-Health App, and an activity sensor equipped with a light sensor to monitor the light exposure of the participant.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical exercise

"During 10 weeks participants perform three days of aerobic activities proposed and in two of these days also do muscle-strengthening exercise. Specifically, a training day consists of: (i) a 5-min warm-up period, (ii) a 10-35 min of muscle-strength training on two of the three days, (iii) a 20-40 min of aerobic training, (iii), and a 5-min of flexibility/stretching cool-down. During the course of the 10 weeks, the duration and intensity of the exercises will increase gradually.~Instruction, monitoring, and feedback will be realised by the m-Health system including a smartphone equipped with the m-Health app and Secure Digital Memory cards to store the exercise videos as well as an activity sensor equipped with a mobile sensor for the acquisition of physical activity."

Trial Locations (4)

Unknown

Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, and Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Frankfurt am Main

Radboud University Medical Centre, Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Department of Psychiatry, Nijmegen

Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addiction, Barcelona

King's College London, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Heidelberg University

OTHER

collaborator

Radboud University Medical Center

OTHER

collaborator

Hospital Vall d'Hebron

OTHER

collaborator

King's College London

OTHER

lead

Goethe University

OTHER

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