Structured Physical Exercise in Short-term Inpatient Treatment of Substance Use Disorder

Structured Physical Exercise in Short-term Inpatient Treatment of Substance Use Disorder: Implications for Abstinence, Quality of Life, Physical- and Mental Health

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04141202

Enrollment

200

Registered

2019-10-28

Start date

2020-02-25

Completion date

2035-12-30

Last updated

2026-07-21

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Conditions

Drug Abuse, Drug Dependence, Substance-Related Disorders

Keywords

Exercise therapy, Exercise physiology

Brief summary

In 2017, structured physical exercise with high intensity was implemented as a part of the treatment program at St. Olav Hospital Clinic of Substance Use and Addiction Medicine. The objective of this study is to examine whether implementing structured physical exercise in the treatment program has implications for patients' physical and mental health and quality of life after completing a 3 month residential treatment program. The results of this study will benefit substance use disorder patients in the future, and may have an impact on further implementation of physical exercise in addiction treatment clinics both nationally and internationally.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Being an inpatient at the clinic

Exclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Physical health	18 months	Change in oxygen uptake
Mental health	18 months	assessed by a in-house developed questionnaire, which is composed of 4 parts: Severity of Dependence 5-items (each of the five items is scored on a 4-point scale (0-3). Total score is the sum of the 5-item ratings. The higher the score the higher the level of dependence); Circumstances, Motivation, Readiness, and Suitability instrument (Five items measured on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (completely disagree) to 5 (totally agree). High scores indicate increased intrinsic motivation); Quality-of-Life rating five items recorded on a five-point Likert scale: 1 (very poor) - 5 (very good). The raw scores are transformed to a decimal scale, ranging from 0.1 worst score to 0.9 best score); Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10): Ten items recorded on a four-point Likert scale: (1) not at all - (4) extremely.

Countries

Norway

Contacts

CONTACTGrete Flemmen, phd

grete.flemmen@stolav.no+47 908 77 876

CONTACTHenrik Loe, phd

henrik.loe@stolav.no

STUDY_DIRECTORKristin Smedsrud

St Olavs Hospital Klinikk for rus- og avhengighetsmedisin

Outcome results