Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Retraining the Body and Brain to Conquer Compulsions
Brief Summary:
Following the realisation that many aspects of the way we live our life, such as our diet, activity levels, and amount of screen time, can have a potent impact on mental health and brain functioning 'lifestyle' based interventions have become topical in medical research. In particular, much scientific attention has been devoted to the impact of physical exercise and various stress reduction techniques on mood disorders. We aim to extend this work and investigate their impact on compulsivity.
We will do this by conducting a pilot proof-of-principal intervention study. The study will compare the impact of eight-weeks of:
The participant cohort will be adults who endorse mild-moderate behavioural compulsivity on one of the following domains: