Effect of Swimming on Premenstrual Syndrome

NCT ID: NCT03264612

Last Updated: 2017-08-29

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

70 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-04-03

Study Completion Date

2017-08-12

Brief Summary

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Each female sets her experience of 47 manifestations on a 6 point scale separately for the premenstrual, menstrual and intermenstrual phases of her latest and worst menstrual cycle. Daily Symptoms Report was filled at the start and at end of the study (before and after performing swimming exercise) Females in group I were instructed to engage into swimming exercise 30 minutes daily, 3 times weekly for 3 months. Exercise was ceased on the first 3 days of menstrual cycle then resumed afterwards.

The exercise included three stages: warming up, swimming and cooling down.

Detailed Description

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Each female sets her experience of 47 manifestations on a 6 point scale separately for the premenstrual, menstrual and intermenstrual phases of her latest and worst menstrual cycle. Daily Symptoms Report was filled at the start and at end of the study (before and after performing swimming exercise) Females in group I were instructed to engage into swimming exercise 30 minutes daily, 3 times weekly for 3 months. Exercise was ceased on the first 3 days of menstrual cycle then resumed afterwards.

The exercise included three stages: warming up, swimming and cooling down. Warming up phase involved 5 minutes of breathing, circulatory and stretching exercises. Breathing diaphragmatic and costal exercise was performed. Diaphragmatic breathing exercise was performed at a convenient position with full relaxation, then she inspires deeply through the nose, ballooning her abdomen then expires through the mouth with a sigh and slowly and that was repeated 3-5 times.

Costal breathing exercise was done also at the woman favorable position then she inspires deeply through the nose, opens out her ribs then expires through the mouth with a sigh and slowly and that was repeated 3-5 times..

Circulatory foot and ankle exercises were done by instructing the woman to point her toes up and down, doing isometric calf muscle contractions and knee flexion and extension.

Stretching exercise of neck flexors, extensors, latissimus dorsi, Deltoid dorsal fibers, triceps, pectoralis major, supraspinatus, wrist , lumbar extensors, abdominal, lumbar flexors, lumbar rotators, hamstrings, adductor, gluteal, gastrocnemius, hip flexors, tensor fascia latae and quadriceps muscles were performed during warming up phase.

The second phase of treatment was swimming for 20 minutes starting with 5 minutes walking inside the pool around its edges, then forth and back swimming without reaching fatigue level for 15 minutes.

The last phase was cooling down phase which was the same exercises of the warming up phase for 5 minutes

Conditions

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Premenstrual Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Swimming group

Females in group I were instructed to engage into swimming exercise 30 minutes daily, 3 times weekly for 3 months. Exercise was ceased on the first 3 days of menstrual cycle then resumed afterwards.

The exercise included three stages: warming up, swimming and cooling down.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Aerobic exercise

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Females in group I were instructed to engage into swimming exercise 30 minutes daily, 3 times weekly for 3 months. Exercise was ceased on the first 3 days of menstrual cycle then resumed afterwards.

The exercise included three stages: warming up, swimming and cooling down.

Non swimming group

no intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Aerobic exercise

Females in group I were instructed to engage into swimming exercise 30 minutes daily, 3 times weekly for 3 months. Exercise was ceased on the first 3 days of menstrual cycle then resumed afterwards.

The exercise included three stages: warming up, swimming and cooling down.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Swimming

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. virgins.
2. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years old
3. Their body mass index (BMI) ranged from 18 to 25 kg/m2.
4. They were clinically and medically stable during the study
5. Have regular menstrual cycle of 23 to 35 days duration

Exclusion Criteria

1. cardiopulmonary or orthopaedic problems
2. women taking any hormonal drugs or drugs that affect hormones as antidepressnats during the preceding 3 months before participation in the study
3. any abnormality in ovulation or those with pelvic inflammatory diseases (PID).
4. Women with endocrine abnormality as thyroid, pituitary or ovarian disorders
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

25 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ahmed Maged

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Ahmed Maged, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

kasr Alainy medical school

Locations

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Kasr Alainy medical school

Cairo, , Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

References

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Maged AM, Abbassy AH, Sakr HRS, Elsawah H, Wagih H, Ogila AI, Kotb A. Effect of swimming exercise on premenstrual syndrome. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2018 Apr;297(4):951-959. doi: 10.1007/s00404-018-4664-1. Epub 2018 Jan 19.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29350276 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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