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COvid-19 Pandemic and Exercise for Health Care Workers (COPE HCW) Trial: A Randomized Study Examining Physical Activities and Wellbeing.
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Exercise for Depressive Symptoms and Physical Inactivity. Completed, enrolled 288 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The present project is designed to address the problem of elevated depression and stress among health care workers (HCWs). Investigators will test the extent to which a 12-week mobile health aerobic exercise intervention (4 days/week for 20 minutes/day) impacts HCWs reported depression. Investigators propose a 2-arm (exercise and waitlist control) parallel randomised controlled trial, with 560 underactive participants recruited from Providence Health Care. Participants will complete an online questionnaire (baseline and every 2 weeks until week 12, and again at week 24) assessing depressive symptoms (primary outcome), stress, flourishing, resilience, life satisfaction, burnout, work-family spillover, , sleep quality, workplace engagement, and absenteeism (secondary outcomes).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The mHealth platform to be used by the exercise group is Down Dog, which has a suite of apps for yoga, HIIT, barre, and running workouts. Down Dog has agreed to provide free memberships for one year to all participants in the study. To ensure participant de-identification on the Down Dog platform, each participant will receive a Participant ID which will be pre-registered by the study coordinator on the Down Dog platform. Randomized participants will be provided instructions for downloading the apps onto their phone or a link to the website to be used on their computer. Following randomization, participants in the exercise group will be asked to engage in physical activity (using any if the Down Dog apps), 4 days a week for 20 minutes a day for 12 weeks.