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Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Patients with stress-related exhaustion suffer from cognitive impairments, which often remain after psychological treatment or work place interventions. It is important to find effective treatments that can address this problem. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the eff...

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Autores principales: Eskilsson, Therese, Slunga Järvholm, Lisbeth, Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna, Stigsdotter Neely, Anna, Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1457-1
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author Eskilsson, Therese
Slunga Järvholm, Lisbeth
Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna
Stigsdotter Neely, Anna
Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan
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Slunga Järvholm, Lisbeth
Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna
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description BACKGROUND: Patients with stress-related exhaustion suffer from cognitive impairments, which often remain after psychological treatment or work place interventions. It is important to find effective treatments that can address this problem. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects on cognitive performance and psychological variables of a 12-week aerobic training program performed at a moderate-vigorous intensity for patients with exhaustion disorder who participated in a multimodal rehabilitation program. METHODS: In this open-label, parallel, randomized and controlled trial, 88 patients diagnosed with exhaustion disorder participated in a 24-week multimodal rehabilitation program. After 12 weeks in the program the patients were randomized to either a 12-week aerobic training intervention or to a control group with no additional training. Primary outcome measure was cognitive function, and secondary outcome measures were psychological health variables and aerobic capacity. RESULTS: In total, 51% patients in the aerobic training group and 78% patients in the control group completed the intervention period. The aerobic training group significantly improved in maximal oxygen uptake and episodic memory performance. No additional improvement in burnout, depression or anxiety was observed in the aerobic group compared with controls. CONCLUSION: Aerobic training at a moderate-vigorous intensity within a multimodal rehabilitation program for patients with exhaustion disorder facilitated episodic memory. A future challenge would be the clinical implementation of aerobic training and methods to increase feasibility in this patient group. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03073772. Retrospectively registered 21 February 2017.
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spelling pubmed-55814202017-09-07 Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial Eskilsson, Therese Slunga Järvholm, Lisbeth Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna Stigsdotter Neely, Anna Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Patients with stress-related exhaustion suffer from cognitive impairments, which often remain after psychological treatment or work place interventions. It is important to find effective treatments that can address this problem. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects on cognitive performance and psychological variables of a 12-week aerobic training program performed at a moderate-vigorous intensity for patients with exhaustion disorder who participated in a multimodal rehabilitation program. METHODS: In this open-label, parallel, randomized and controlled trial, 88 patients diagnosed with exhaustion disorder participated in a 24-week multimodal rehabilitation program. After 12 weeks in the program the patients were randomized to either a 12-week aerobic training intervention or to a control group with no additional training. Primary outcome measure was cognitive function, and secondary outcome measures were psychological health variables and aerobic capacity. RESULTS: In total, 51% patients in the aerobic training group and 78% patients in the control group completed the intervention period. The aerobic training group significantly improved in maximal oxygen uptake and episodic memory performance. No additional improvement in burnout, depression or anxiety was observed in the aerobic group compared with controls. CONCLUSION: Aerobic training at a moderate-vigorous intensity within a multimodal rehabilitation program for patients with exhaustion disorder facilitated episodic memory. A future challenge would be the clinical implementation of aerobic training and methods to increase feasibility in this patient group. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03073772. Retrospectively registered 21 February 2017. BioMed Central 2017-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5581420/ /pubmed/28865430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1457-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna
Stigsdotter Neely, Anna
Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan
Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
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title_full Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
title_short Aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
title_sort aerobic training for improved memory in patients with stress-related exhaustion: a randomized controlled trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1457-1
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