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Deep Water Running in reducing body weight, improved functional capacity and quality of life in obese

Effect of Deep Water Running in body composition, functional capacity and quality of life in pre-obese and obese adults: randomized controlled trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-6dmh7d
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2016-07-27
Start date
2016-05-30
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

The intervention program will have 12 weeks, with frequency of three times a week on alternate days. Volunteers will be randomly allocated into two groups: water group of 15 volunteers who will be sub
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Sponsors

Universidade do Sagrado Coração
Lead Sponsor
Universidade do Sagrado Coração
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
39 Years to 59 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Volunteers of both sexes; adults in the age group of 39 to 59 years of age; classified as pre-obese and obesity I according to the III Brazilian Guidelines on Obesity. Show good adaptation to the liquid medium; perform the entry; exit and walking in the pool independently, and adequately perform the Deep Water Running technique in interval training system (DWR-STI). All volunteers must submit prescription attesting to the absence of restrictive heart disease the practice of aquatic physical training.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal and neuromuscular diseases that impede the realization of the aquatic training program; as well as the following contraindications of aquatic physical therapy; hydrophobia; skin wounds and infectious diseases. Volunteers may not have taken part in other physical training program for at least two months before the start of data collection, as well as carrying out other training or nutritional monitoring program for the aquatic intervention. For those who use antihypertensive medications and therapy for hormone replacement therapy (HRT); will not be allowed to change in class and or drug dose. Each volunteer can have a maximum of 3 absences (10%) nonconsecutive during the intervention.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Increased lean body mass between 20 and 30%, and decreased coporal fat by 2% both evaluated by electrical bioimpedance, improved functional capacity, assessed by the Walk Test 6 minutes 6MWT) will around 35 meters more than the distance above and improves the quality of life assessed by the Impact of Weight on quality of life-Lite (IWQOL-LITE) between 70-80% in the domains physical function, self-esteem, difficulty in public places and work in the water group after end of the intervention. In the control group is expected to occur no changes in the values of any variable analyzed.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
The results of the Water Group (Intervention) are statistically better (considering p <0.05) than the control group, the following variables: body composition assessed by bioelectrical impedance analysis, functional capacity assessed by the 6MWT and quality of life assessed by IWQOL- LITE after the end of treatment.

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactBruna Pianna

Universidade do Sagrado Coração

brunapianna@gmail.com+55(14)32381091

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 20, 2026