General information
  • Disease category Mental and Behavioural diseases (BASEC)
  • Recruitment status recruitment ongoing (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Trial sites
    Basel
    (BASEC)
  • Contact Markus Gerber markus.gerber@unibas.ch (BASEC)
  • Data Source(s) BASEC: Import from 20.06.2025 ICTRP: N/A
  • Last update 20.06.2025 10:35
HumRes66858 | SNCTP000006394 | BASEC2025-00557

Movement Coaching for Patients with Depressive Disorder in Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment

  • Disease category Mental and Behavioural diseases (BASEC)
  • Recruitment status recruitment ongoing (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Trial sites
    Basel
    (BASEC)
  • Contact Markus Gerber markus.gerber@unibas.ch (BASEC)
  • Data Source(s) BASEC: Import from 20.06.2025 ICTRP: N/A
  • Last update 20.06.2025 10:35

Summary description of the study

You are suffering from depression, and we are reaching out to ask if you would like to participate in this study. In this study, we investigate how individual movement coaching affects your physical activity behavior, the severity of your depression, and your quality of life. Participation in this study will last a total of 36 weeks, or 8 months. We will invite you for 3 examinations at the facilities of Sonnenhalde AG. Each appointment lasts about 2 hours. If you decide to participate in the study, you will be randomly assigned to one of three groups. You will either belong to one of two experimental groups or to the control group. You will learn which group you belong to after the first measurement. In the first experimental group, you will receive 10 weeks of individual movement coaching and will wear a Smart Ring, which you will continue to wear until the end of the study (8 months). In the second experimental group, you will also receive 10 weeks of individual movement coaching and a Smart Ring, which you will wear for the entire 8 months. Additionally, after the first 10 weeks, you will be supported for another 26 weeks through telephone movement coaching. In the control group, you will receive written exercise recommendations.

(BASEC)

Intervention under investigation

Movement Coaching

(BASEC)

Disease under investigation

Depression

(BASEC)

Criteria for participation in trial
18 to 65 years old Outpatient patient treated in a day clinic Depression (F32, F33 according to ICD-10) (BASEC)

Exclusion criteria
Medical contraindications for engaging in physical activity Psychosis and/or suicidality Pregnancy or breastfeeding (BASEC)

Trial sites

Basel

(BASEC)

not available

Sponsor

Markus Gerber

(BASEC)

Contact

Contact Person Switzerland

Markus Gerber

+41 61 207 47 83

markus.gerber@unibas.ch

Departement für Sport, Bewegung und Gesundheit, Universität Basel

(BASEC)

Scientific Information

not available

Name of the authorising ethics committee (for multicentre studies, only the lead committee)

Ethics Committee northwest/central Switzerland EKNZ

(BASEC)

Date of authorisation

06.05.2025

(BASEC)


ICTRP Trial ID
not available

Official title (approved by ethics committee)
Lifestyle Physical Activity Coaching in Outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder (PACOUTPAT): Randomized Controlled Trial on Physical Activity, Depression and Quality of Life (BASEC)

Academic title
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Public title
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Disease under investigation
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Intervention under investigation
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Type of trial
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Trial design
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Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
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Primary and secondary end points
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Registration date
not available

Incorporation of the first participant
not available

Secondary sponsors
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Additional contacts
not available

Secondary trial IDs
not available

Results-Individual Participant Data (IPD)
not available

Further information on the trial
not available

Results of the trial

Results summary

not available

Link to the results in the primary register

not available