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Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China

BACKGROUND: An inverse relationship between physical activity (PA) and depression among adolescents has been reported in developed communities without consideration of sedentary behaviors (SB, including sitting for course study, viewing TV, and sleeping). We explored the association between recreati...

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Autores principales: Hong, Xin, Li, JieQuan, Xu, Fei, Tse, Lap Ah, Liang, YaQiong, Wang, ZhiYong, Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun, Griffiths, Sian
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19457241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-148
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author Hong, Xin
Li, JieQuan
Xu, Fei
Tse, Lap Ah
Liang, YaQiong
Wang, ZhiYong
Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun
Griffiths, Sian
author_facet Hong, Xin
Li, JieQuan
Xu, Fei
Tse, Lap Ah
Liang, YaQiong
Wang, ZhiYong
Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun
Griffiths, Sian
author_sort Hong, Xin
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description BACKGROUND: An inverse relationship between physical activity (PA) and depression among adolescents has been reported in developed communities without consideration of sedentary behaviors (SB, including sitting for course study, viewing TV, and sleeping). We explored the association between recreational PA time (hr/wk) and depression after adjustment with SB and other possible confounders among Chinese adolescents. METHODS: A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Nanjing municipality of China in 2004 using a multi-stage cluster sampling approach. A total of 72 classes were randomly selected from 24 urban junior high schools and all students completed the structured questionnaire. Adolescent depression was examined by the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) of Chinese version with cutoff point value of 20 or above as the presence of depression. Recreational PA time was measured by a question on weekly hours of PA outside of school. Descriptive statistics, multivariate logistic and linear regression models were used in analysis. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression was 15.7% (95%CI: 14.3%, 17.1%) among 2,444 eligible participants. It was found that physical activity was negatively associated with depression. After adjustment for sedentary behaviors and other potential confounders, participants who spent 1–7 hr/wk, 8–14 hr/wk and 15+ hr/wk for recreational PA, respectively, had odds ratios of 0.70 (95% CI = 0.57, 0.86), 0.68 (95% CI = 0.53, 0.88) and 0.66 (95% CI = 0.50, 0.87) for likelihood of being depressive, compared to their counterparts who spent 0–0.9 hr/wk for PA. This inverse relationship between PA time and depression remained statistically significant by gender and grade. CONCLUSION: This study, conducted among Chinese adolescents, strengthened the evidence that physical activity was inversely associated with depression. Our study has important implications for health officers and public health professionals to pay much attention to the relationship between physical activity and depression in Mainland China.
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spelling pubmed-26931352009-06-08 Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China Hong, Xin Li, JieQuan Xu, Fei Tse, Lap Ah Liang, YaQiong Wang, ZhiYong Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun Griffiths, Sian BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: An inverse relationship between physical activity (PA) and depression among adolescents has been reported in developed communities without consideration of sedentary behaviors (SB, including sitting for course study, viewing TV, and sleeping). We explored the association between recreational PA time (hr/wk) and depression after adjustment with SB and other possible confounders among Chinese adolescents. METHODS: A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Nanjing municipality of China in 2004 using a multi-stage cluster sampling approach. A total of 72 classes were randomly selected from 24 urban junior high schools and all students completed the structured questionnaire. Adolescent depression was examined by the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) of Chinese version with cutoff point value of 20 or above as the presence of depression. Recreational PA time was measured by a question on weekly hours of PA outside of school. Descriptive statistics, multivariate logistic and linear regression models were used in analysis. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression was 15.7% (95%CI: 14.3%, 17.1%) among 2,444 eligible participants. It was found that physical activity was negatively associated with depression. After adjustment for sedentary behaviors and other potential confounders, participants who spent 1–7 hr/wk, 8–14 hr/wk and 15+ hr/wk for recreational PA, respectively, had odds ratios of 0.70 (95% CI = 0.57, 0.86), 0.68 (95% CI = 0.53, 0.88) and 0.66 (95% CI = 0.50, 0.87) for likelihood of being depressive, compared to their counterparts who spent 0–0.9 hr/wk for PA. This inverse relationship between PA time and depression remained statistically significant by gender and grade. CONCLUSION: This study, conducted among Chinese adolescents, strengthened the evidence that physical activity was inversely associated with depression. Our study has important implications for health officers and public health professionals to pay much attention to the relationship between physical activity and depression in Mainland China. BioMed Central 2009-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2693135/ /pubmed/19457241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-148 Text en Copyright © 2009 Hong et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hong, Xin
Li, JieQuan
Xu, Fei
Tse, Lap Ah
Liang, YaQiong
Wang, ZhiYong
Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun
Griffiths, Sian
Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title_full Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title_fullStr Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title_full_unstemmed Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title_short Physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional China
title_sort physical activity inversely associated with the presence of depression among urban adolescents in regional china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19457241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-148
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