Effects of Exercise Intervention on Sleep Quality and Emotional Problems in College Students With Depressive Symptoms

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Archery Exercise: Participants perform a standardized archery exercise program consisting of an acute exercise session followed by an 8-week supervised training program. The acute session includes a 5-minute warm-up, 20 minutes of archery exercise, and a 5-minute cool-down. The long-term intervention is conducted three times per week for 8 weeks at moderate exercise intensity.

Non-exercise Control: Participants continue their usual daily activities without participating in the archery exercise intervention.

Study summary

This exploratory randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the immediate and long-term effects of exercise on sleep quality, emotional problems, executive function, and neurophysiological characteristics in college students with depressive symptoms. The study consists of two sequential phases: an acute exercise experiment followed by an 8-week exercise intervention. Participants will be randomly assigned to either an exercise intervention group or a control group. Psychological questionnaires, behavioral tasks, resting-state electroencephalography (EEG), brain functional connectivity, and event-related potentials (ERP) will be assessed to evaluate behavioral and neurophysiological changes before and after exercise. The study will further examine whether the immediate response to acute exercise predicts the effectiveness of the long-term intervention.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Depressive symptoms measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) — Baseline, immediately after the acute exercise session, and after completion of the 8-week intervention.
  Depressive symptoms will be assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Changes in depressive symptom severity following acute and long-term archery exercise interventions will be evaluated.
• Sleep quality measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) — Baseline, immediately after the acute exercise session, and after completion of the 8-week intervention.
  Sleep quality will be assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Changes in sleep quality after acute and long-term archery exercise interventions will be evaluated.
• Resting-state EEG functional connectivity — Baseline, immediately after the acute exercise session, and after completion of the 8-week intervention.
  Resting-state EEG functional connectivity will be analyzed using phase synchronization metrics to evaluate neural changes associated with archery exercise interventions.

Trial sites (1)

More Capital University of Physical Education and Sports, China trials in China

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