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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01350492
Date of registration: 05/05/2011
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Public title: Impact of Exercise Training on Pain and Brain Function in Gulf War Veterans
Scientific title: Impact of Exercise Training on Pain and Brain Function in Gulf War Veterans
Date of first enrolment: April 16, 2013
Target sample size: 77
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01350492
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Dane B. Cook, PhD
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Affiliation:  William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Veteran of the Persian Gulf War

- Chronic muscle pain

Exclusion Criteria:

- Regular participation in resistance exercise

- Color blindness

- Claustrophobia

- Medical conditions that could explain the Veteran's pain

- Use of exclusionary drugs 3 weeks prior to testing

- Major depressive disorder with melancholic features

- Substance abuse

- Schizophrenia

- Bipolar disorder



Age minimum: 35 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Resistance Exercise Training
Primary Outcome(s)
Patients' Global Impression of Change (PGIC). [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months post intervention.]
Physical Component Score (PCS) From the Veterans Rand 36 Item Heath Survey (VR-36). [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months post intervention.]
Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire Visual Analog Scale (VAS). [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months post intervention.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Brain Structure: White Matter Tract Integrity, Operationalized With Fractional Anisotropy (FA) Measures at the Body of the Corpus Callosum. [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months]
Physical Activity (Self-report) [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months post intervention.]
Physical Activity (Accelerometer) [Time Frame: 6 weeks, 11 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 and 12 months post intervention.]
Secondary ID(s)
SPLD-004-10S
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 08/07/2020
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01350492
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