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Study identifier: NCT05398276 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 29, 2026
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Behavioral Exposure for Introceptive Tolerance RCT

Condition: Exercise Sensitivity · Introceptive Exposure · Anxiety  ·  Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

PhaseNA
Planned participants146
Who can joinAll sexes, 40 Years to no upper limit
Healthy volunteersNo

About this study

Behavioral Exposure for Interoceptive Tolerance (BE-FIT) is a mechanism-informed behavioral intervention to target exercise anxiety. The three primary components of BE-FIT include: (1) exposure to feared bodily sensations and exercise; (2) prevention of safety behavior use before/during/after exercise, and (3) use of a wrist-worn activity monitor for physical activity (PA) feedback and activity goal setting. Evidence from the investigators' Stage I trial indicated that BE-FIT is feasible, acceptable, and safe and produced reductions in exercise anxiety and increased exercise outcomes (short-term moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity and steps/day). The investigators' present aim is to conduct a Stage II randomized-controlled trial to further evaluate the efficacy of BE-FIT in decreasing exercise anxiety in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients and examine whether changes in this target yield successive changes in exercise adherence outcomes.

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Talk to the study team

Samantha G Farris, PhD  ·  (845) 445-2174  ·  samantha.farris@rutgers.edu

Isabelle C Barb, BA  ·  6095752169  ·  icb24@psych.rutgers.edu

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Locations (3)

RWJ Cardiac Rehab at East BrunswickEast Brunswick, New Jersey, United StatesRecruiting
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset Cardiac Rehabilitation ProgramHillsborough, New Jersey, United StatesRecruiting
Rutgers Emotion, Health and Behavior Laboratory Department of PsychologyNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United StatesRecruiting

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