High Intensity Training for Patients with Anxiety

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY · Mar 11, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

The study is a randomised controlled trial ("RCT") design with a 1:1 allocation into two groups. The two groups are high intensity exercise (1x4 minutes performed two times per week with a heart rate above 85% of maximal heart rate) and low intensity exercise (45 minutes performed two times per week with a heart rate of approximately 60% of maximal heart rate). The total amount of training sessions for both groups will be eight. The high intensity exercise group will serve as the intervention group, while the low intensity exercise group will serve as an active control group.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients with mild/moderate anxiety disorders, aged 18-60 years. Anxiety disorders in accordance with F 41 in ICD-10, including generalised anxiety disorder, agoraphobia/panic disorder, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, hypochondria, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• • Comorbidity will occur, so the patient may also have depression. However, the main disorder should be anxiety.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Somatic diseases that may impede training: cardiovascular disease, severe asthma, severe COPD, cancer, poorly regulated diabetes.
• • Schizophrenia or bipolar disease
• • Suicidality (prior attempts or ongoing risk of suicide)
• • Substance addiction