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Exercise and depressive symptoms
— a comparison of aerobic and resistance exercise effects on emotional and physical function in older persons with high and low depressive symptomatology | | Author(s) | Brenda W J H Penninx, W Jack Rejeski, Jasma Pandya |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp P124-P132 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Emotions ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the Fitness, Arthritis and Seniors Trial (FAST) - a trial of 439 Americans aged 60+ with knee osteoarthritis - participants were randomised to health education (control), resistance exercise, or aerobic exercise groups. Their depressive symptoms, assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression scale (CES-D), and physical function (disability, walking speed and pain) were assessed at baseline and after 3, 9 and 18 months. Compared with results for the control group, aerobic exercise significantly lowered depressive symptoms over time. No such effect was observed for resistance exercise. The reduction in depressive symptoms with aerobic exercises was found both among the 98 participants with initially high depressive symptomatology and among the 340 participants with initially low depressive symptomatology, and was strongest for the most compliant people. Aerobic exercise and resistance exercise significantly reduced disability and pain, and increased walking speed both, and to an equal extent, in those with either high or low depressive symptomatology. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614203 A |
| Classmark | CEA: ENR: CT: DL: CA: C4: 48: 7T |
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