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“Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study
Exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depressive symptoms, yet it often requires specialised knowledge, equipment, or professional supervision. Lay people in certain contexts, for example in remote locations or under pandemic restrictions, often lack these resources and thus cannot use exercis...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10563784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37822795 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1202955 |
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author | Sandra, Dasha A. Olson, Jay A. Pageaux, Benjamin Roy, Mathieu |
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description | Exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depressive symptoms, yet it often requires specialised knowledge, equipment, or professional supervision. Lay people in certain contexts, for example in remote locations or under pandemic restrictions, often lack these resources and thus cannot use exercise to manage their depressive symptoms. We developed a two-week home exercise program that bypasses these barriers and tested it in university students during pandemic restrictions. In an online study, we recruited 49 participants to complete a week of baseline symptom monitoring then follow the exercise program for 2 weeks (6 sessions) at home. The exercise program involved aerobic and resistance training; each session lasted approximately 45 min. After 2 weeks of the intervention, participants reported lower depressive (standardised [Formula: see text] = −0.71 [−1.05, −0.38]) and anxiety ([Formula: see text] = −0.87 [−1.19, −0.55]) symptoms. Although we cannot make causal conclusions, our results suggest that the brief home exercise program may have potential to reduce depressive symptoms in young adults. |
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spelling | pubmed-105637842023-10-11 “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study Sandra, Dasha A. Olson, Jay A. Pageaux, Benjamin Roy, Mathieu Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depressive symptoms, yet it often requires specialised knowledge, equipment, or professional supervision. Lay people in certain contexts, for example in remote locations or under pandemic restrictions, often lack these resources and thus cannot use exercise to manage their depressive symptoms. We developed a two-week home exercise program that bypasses these barriers and tested it in university students during pandemic restrictions. In an online study, we recruited 49 participants to complete a week of baseline symptom monitoring then follow the exercise program for 2 weeks (6 sessions) at home. The exercise program involved aerobic and resistance training; each session lasted approximately 45 min. After 2 weeks of the intervention, participants reported lower depressive (standardised [Formula: see text] = −0.71 [−1.05, −0.38]) and anxiety ([Formula: see text] = −0.87 [−1.19, −0.55]) symptoms. Although we cannot make causal conclusions, our results suggest that the brief home exercise program may have potential to reduce depressive symptoms in young adults. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10563784/ /pubmed/37822795 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1202955 Text en Copyright © 2023 Sandra, Olson, Pageaux and Roy. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Sandra, Dasha A. Olson, Jay A. Pageaux, Benjamin Roy, Mathieu “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title | “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title_full | “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title_fullStr | “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title_full_unstemmed | “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title_short | “Ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
title_sort | “ready-to-use” two-week home exercise program targeting depressive symptoms: pilot study |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10563784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37822795 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1202955 |
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