Exercise addiction
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Participants who exercise more than 7 hours per week will fill in the Exercise Dependence Scale and other questionnaires on psychiatric health
Group 2: Participants who score above the cutoff
Sponsors
University of Basel
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: • 7 hours or more of exercise per week AND • Able to understand and sign the informed consent Additional inclusion criteria for FMRI analysis • Identified as having a psychiatric disorder as an underlying cause for excessive exercise habits Inactive controls Inclusion criteria (FMRI analysis) • No more than 1 hour a week of exercise • No history of psychiatric disorders • Able to understand and sign the informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: • Medical contraindications to FMRI exposure (vascular clips, prosthetic heart valves, pacemaker, other medical devices, pregnancy). • Pregnancy. A pregnancy test will be carried out with female participants before the FMRI. • Acute or chronic psychiatric dysfunction that would make completing questionnaires of undergoing a screening interview impossible or unsafe.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Results of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM V (SCID II) in a sample of participants with symptoms of exercise addiction. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| • List of symptoms currently held to be indicative of possible exercise addiction in the scientific literature • Score on the Exercise Dependence Scale • Scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, Trait subscale of the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the ADHD Self-report Scale, and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire • Differences in resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) between participants with symptoms of exercise addiction and sedentary controls • Differences in neural activity upon exposure to exercise-related stimuli between participants with symptoms of exercise addiction and sedentary controls • Differences in fearful face processing between participants with symptoms of exercise addiction and sedentary controls | — |
Countries
Germany, Switzerland
Contacts
Public ContactFlora Colledge
University of Basel
Outcome results
None listed