Efficacy of Walking Exercise With Dog on Tinnitus Complaints in Sleep Apnea (Obstructive Sleep Apnea)
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: free walking with dog and diet restriction, diet restriction.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Tinnitus, Subjective, Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Basic parameters: 30 years — 45 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
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Official title
Efficacy of Walking Exercise With Dog on Tinnitus Complaints in Sleep Apnea
Overview
there is evidence that tinnitus (chronic subjective form) is highly prevalent among patients with obstructive sleep apnea. exercise is recommneded in chronic subjective form) and obstructive sleep apnea. walking with dog increase adherence to walking to maintain continuity of physical activity
Detailed description
the total participants will be forty in number.. those participants will complain form tinnitus (chronic subjective form) and obstructive sleep apnea (mild degree).. the particiapnts will divided to groups.. the number of subjects in each group will be 20. The groups (both groups) will follow low calorie diet.. this diet will be applied for 12 weeks.. during this period the study group will receive free walking (30 min) with dog three timmes weekly. the control group will not receive free walking with dog
Interventions
- Behavioral free walking with dog and diet restriction
the total participants of tinnitus (chronic subjective form) and obstructive sleep apnea (mild degree) in this group will be 20. This group will follow low calorie diet.. this diet will be applied for 12 weeks.. during this period the study, this group will receive free walking (30 min) with dog three timmes weekly. - Behavioral diet restriction
the total participants with tinnitus (chronic subjective form) and obstructive sleep apnea (mild degree) in this group will be 20. This group will follow low calorie diet only .. this diet will be applied for 12 weeks..
Primary outcome measures
- tinnitus handicap inventory [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (8)
- VAS of discomfort induced by tinnitus [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- VAS of loudness of tinnitus [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- apnea hyponea index [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- Eporwth sleepiness scale [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- Pittsburgh sleeping quality index [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- Questionnaire of Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- body mass index [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- wait circumference [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- obese persons
- bilateral chronic subjective tinnitus
- mild obstructive sleep apnea (mild apnea hypopnea index)
- forty participants
Exclusion criteria
- body mass index more than 40 kg/m2.
- cardiovascular problems
- hepatorenal probelms
- autoimmune problems
- orthopedic probelms
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- Cairo University — Dokki
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06803095 · IRB00014233-18