2.1. Trial Design
schizophrenia
This is a non-randomized clinical trial of two physical interventions (aerobic physical intervention (API) and postural physical intervention (PPI)) over three months in two groups of stable outpatients with diagnosis of schizophrenia. API was applied in patients at a public health facility (Psychosocial Attention Center (CAPS)) in Camaquã, a mid-sized town of southern Brazil, and PPI in patients of the Schizophrenia Outpatient Program (Prodesq) of a major University Hospital—Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA)—in a large-sized town in southern Brazil.