Exercise Strategies to Motivate and Relieve Stress

Exercise Strategies to Motivate and Relieve Stress in Adults With Chronic Cardiopulmonary Conditions

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate exercise strategies that motivate and relive stress in adults with cardiopulomnary conditions. The goals of this study are as follows:

• To explore the feasibility (how easily it can be done) of using self-selected music during exercise training for adults with cardiopulmonary conditions.
• To assess patient satisfaction of self-selected music with exercise for adults with cardiopulmonary conditions.
• To explore the immediate effects of self-selected music on mood and symptoms (shortness of breath and fatigue) compared with listening to a podcast during their exercise training session

Participants will:

• Select 5-7 songs and 1 podcast to listen to during their treatment session
• Walk on the treadmill while either listening to a podcast or music
• Fill out surveys about their mood, symptoms (shortness of breath and fatigue), music/podcast, and exercise

Music2Move aims to assess if tailored music (music choices that are set to a certain beats per minute and are self-selected by the participant) improves mood while exercising in adults with chronic lung diseases, to ultimately motivate them to engage in physical activity more frequently. This trial will be conducted during their pulmonary rehabilitation session for two consecutive sessions. Researchers will flip a coin for a random order of music condition or no music condition for each participant. Researchers will meet with participants before the trial to collect music selections to be played during the pulmonary rehabilitation session. Mood will be assessed every 2 minutes during the trial using the Feeling Scale to examine the effect of tailored music selections on the participants tolerance for exercise and maximal limit exercise exertion during the session. Heart rate, oxygen level, fatigue, and affect (immediate emotional response), measure of breathlessness (feelings of shortness of breath) will also be assessed before and after the trial to examine the affect that tailored music has on physical measures of exercise. The results of this study could aid in finding motivational tools to improve exercise participation and adherence in adults with chronic respiratory disease.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosed with a cardiopulmonary disease
• Speaks and understands English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Require a hearing aid or have a hearing impairment that interferes with their ability to hear music or use headphones during the study.
• Unable to engage in physical activity due to health conditions including neurological or musculoskeletal diseases.
• Require ≥6 liters of supplemental oxygen during pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.
• Younger than 21 years old.
• Older than 85 years old.
• Have uncontrolled anginal symptoms.
• Unable to exercise on a treadmill.