Aerobic exercise in the treatment of nonpsychotic mental disorders: An exploratory study

More Than One Way to Change: A Study of Course Heterogeneity During and After Short‐term Psychiatric In‐patient Treatment

“…Even though self-reported physical activity did not enter the regression equations for these two groups (see Table 3), this finding is of interest in light of the discussion of the effect of physical training in the treatment of psychiatric disorders (Martinsen, Sandvik & Kolbjoernsrud, 1989). The present finding shows that high levels of physical training can be associated both with improvement and chronicity.…”

The Effects of Exercise Training on Anxiety

“…87 All patients exhibited improvements except those diagnosed with social phobia. Patients with GAD and agoraphobia without panic attacks maintained improvements at a 1-year follow-up.…”

“…Patients with GAD and agoraphobia without panic attacks maintained improvements at a 1-year follow-up. 87 However, a key limitation of this study was the lack of a control comparison.…”

Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression

“…In a study without a control group, patients with generalized anxiety disorder improved during an 8-week inpatient programme with daily aerobic exercise, and patients kept their gains at 1-year follow-up. Patients with social phobia experienced no significant changes in anxiety (31). Exercise intervention studies in other anxiety disorders have not been published.…”

“…In a prospective study without a control group, patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia improved following an 8-week inpatient programme, mainly consisting of daily aerobic exercise, but the majority relapsed at 1-year follow-up (31). To date, the only randomized test of exercise for anxiety disorders was conducted by Broocks and colleagues (32), who assigned patients with panic disorder to aerobic exercise, antidepressant medication and placebo tablets for 8 weeks.…”