Correlates between anxiety and exercise
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Correlates Between Anxiety and Depression Symptoms With Exercise Treadmill Test Performance in Cardiovascular Outpatients
IRAS ID
256475
Contact name
Jerome Ment
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 9 days
Research summary
Anxiety and depression are common, especially in people who have heart disease. We know that having heart disease together with anxiety or depression puts you at greater risk than just having heart disease alone, but we don't yet know all of the reasons why. One of the tests patients with heart disease might be asked to do is an exercise test on a treadmill to see how their heart responds to stress. How anxiety and depression symptoms interact with the ability to exercise is not yet fully known. The purpose of this study is to investigate if high levels of anxiety and depression make it more difficult to complete a high quality exercise test, such as when anxiety-like symptoms make the patient want to stop the test early. In this study, patients will be given questionnaires before a normal exercise test to measure how much they feel anxious and depressed. Then, these scores will be correlated with exercise results to see if patients who are very anxious or very depressed have shorter or less diagnostically clear tests. The study will last for one year, where 200 cardiology patients will come into hospital to take surveys and complete their exercise test.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EM/0214
Date of REC Opinion
25 Jun 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion