Ebbinge, E. (Elise) (2021) Feasibility of a single session of passive exercise and its acute effects on stress symptoms. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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Background: The prevalence of stress and burnout is already high, and is expected to rise even further due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Passive exercise in the form of Therapeutic Motion Simulation (TMSim) with integrated Whole Body Vibration (WBV) is a novel approach combining different stress-reducing mechanisms Objective: The objective is to examine the feasibility and explore acute effects of a single session of passive exercise in the form of TMSim and WBV to reduce stress-symptoms among students. Design, Setting, Participants: 28 higher educational students (71.4% female, age: 21.9 ± 2.1 years, BAT: 2.38 ± 0.57) participated in this balanced cross-over study consisting of three experimental conditions (active TMSim, Calm TMSim, WBV) and one control condition. Each condition lasted for approximately four minutes. Feasibility was evaluated based on willingness to participate, experience scores, adherence to passive exercise protocol and adverse events. Perceived stress, perceived muscle tension, mood, heart rate and heart rate variability were used to examine the acute effects. Results: Willingness to participate was 17% and participants indicated pleasant experiences during the enjoyable conditions(fun: 7.1 ± 1.4; comfort: 6.9 ± 1.1 on a 10-point scale). Adherence to exercise protocol was 96.4%. No serious adverse events occurred. A session of passive exercise went together with detachment from study. Perceived stress decreased significantly after the complete session with passive exercise (p= .001, r= .45), and after the calm videos both with (calm TMSim; p= .005 , r= .37) and without (control condition; p<.001, r= .54) movements and music vs. pre-measurements. In the at risk group, tensed moods disappeared, while calm moods appeared. Heart rate significantly decreased during calm TMSim (p= .002, r= .54) and control condition (p< .001, r= .62) compared to pre-measures. Perceived muscle tension and HRV lacked significant results. Conclusion: Passive exercise in the form of TMSim with WBV is considered to be feasible . and the positive acute effects found legitimizes further research into the chronic effects. However, videos for calm conditions should be adjusted to the preferences of students and it is recommended to include objective stress-measures, since current results mainly rely on subjective measures.
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Heuvelen, dr. M.J.G. van |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2022 09:43 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2022 09:43 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3294 |
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