Clinical Trial: Sexual Health on Antidepressants Through Physical Exercise

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Sexual Health on Antidepressants Through Physical Exercise

Brief Summary: Preliminary findings from a trial in the investigators laboratory suggest that acute exercise may ameliorate deficits in sexual arousal associated with use of antidepressants. The goal of this project is to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of an exercise-based intervention for these side effects in a community-based sample. The investigators hypothesize that general exercise will help improve sexual functioning in women taking antidepressants, and that exercise immediately before sexual activity - that is, acute exercise - will have an additional beneficial effect above and beyond that of general exercise.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Current Primary Outcome: Sexual Functioning [ Time Frame: 10 weeks ]

Sexual functioning as measured by the Female Sexual Functioning Index


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • Sexual satisfaction [ Time Frame: Baseline (0 weeks), 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks, 6 weeks, 7 weeks, 8 weeks, 9 weeks ]
    Sexual satisfaction as measured by self-report measure completed weekly throughout the trial
  • Sexual Functioning [ Time Frame: 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks ]
    Sexual functioning as measured by the Female Sexual Functioning Index will be measured in between each arm of the trial.


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University of Texas at Austin

Dates:
Date Received: August 20, 2010
Date Started: November 2010
Date Completion:
Last Updated: May 26, 2015
Last Verified: May 2015