Physical activity and exercise in youth mental health promotion: a scoping review

Pascoe, Michaela C.; Bailey, Alan P; Craike, Melinda; Carter, Tim; Patten, Rhiannon K.; Stepto, Nigel K.; Parker, Alexandra G.

doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000677

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“…Eligible studies were either randomised controlled trials (RCT) or non-RCTs, published in English. Excluded studies were those that recruited people with specific physical, intellectual or mental disorder that were not the condition being treated with PA/exercise (eg, effects of exercise on depression in people with epilepsy); samples that had not been diagnosed with a mental disorder by a trained clinician or did not reach a defined cut-off score on a scale that indicated a likely disorder, as we have examined the impact of PA/exercise as a treatment for mental disorder in non-clinical samples in our companion paper to this article 28 ; dissertations; and studies published before 1980 as youth mental health was not considered a discrete field prior to 1980. 29…”

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Exercise interventions for mental disorders in young people: a scoping review

Pascoe

Bailey

Craike

et al. 2020

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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AimsThis scoping review determines the breadth and outcomes of controlled trials testing the effect of physical activity/exercise interventions across mental health outcomes in young people with a mental disorder.MethodsThe literature search was conducted using the open-access ‘Evidence Finder’, a comprehensive youth mental health-specific database that is systematically populated from MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO and Cochrane CENTRAL databases.ResultsSixteen publications were identified after meeting the following eligibility criteria: (1) participants were young people (mean age 12–25.9 years) with a mental disorder diagnosed by a trained clinician or by reaching a predefined cut score on a symptom measure, (2) interventions were exercise, (3) designs were randomised or non-randomised controlled trials, (4) outcomes were mental health related. Eight studies included young people with depression, three included people with psychosis/schizophrenia, three included people with eating disorders and two included people with anxiety. The available evidence suggests that moderate-to-vigorous-intensity exercise may be beneficial, particularly for reducing depression. The available evidence for other intervention intensities, and for other mental disorders, is mixed.ConclusionsOverall, the evidence regarding the impact of exercise interventions on a range of mental health outcomes in clinical populations of young people with various mental disorders looks promising but requires further development. Findings from this scoping review can inform the development of future exercise interventions in the youth mental health field.

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Exercise interventions for mental disorders in young people: a scoping review

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Bailey

Craike

et al. 2020

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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“…Increasingly larger studies have explored the relationship between physical exercise and individuals’ mental health, and some have found that physical exercise does improve mental health [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. For example, Netz et al [ 17 ] determined that physical exercise has important beneficial effects on individuals’ physical and mental health.…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

Zhu

Chen

et al. 2020

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Walking has a positive impact on people’s emotional health. However, in the case of serious air pollution, it is controversial whether walking exercise can still improve individuals’ emotional health. Using data from the 2014 wave of the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey, this study explored the relationship between walking and emotional health with different levels of environmental pollution. The results indicated that respondents who took regular walks had better emotional health than those who did not walk regularly. For those whose main mode of physical exercise was walking, the average number of walks per week was significantly and positively correlated with their emotional health; however, the average duration of the walk had no significant impact on their emotional health. Moreover, for those whose main mode of physical exercise was walking and who lived in neighborhoods with a polluted environment, regular walking still had a positive impact on their emotional health. This suggests that even if environmental pollution is serious, walking still plays an important role in regulating individuals’ mental health. We propose that in order to promote the emotional health of residents, it is necessary to create more public spaces for outdoor activities and simultaneously increase efforts to control environmental pollution.

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“…To counteract such detrimental consequences, the WHO encouraged people of all ages to "be active and stay healthy at home" [12]. It is well known that being physically active enables people to limit numerous risk factors for physical and mental diseases [13][14][15] and promotes individual's wellbeing [16]. Unfortunately, strong evidence reveals that the majority of children and adolescents in many countries do not participate in sufficient physical activity (PA) [17].…”

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Promoting Physical Activity During School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors in Three European Countries

Gobbi¹,

Maltagliati²,

Sarrazin³

et al. 2020

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COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced physical activity (PA) behaviors of many people. Physical education (PE) is considered one of the privileged instruments to promote youths’ PA. We aimed to investigate the effects of lockdown on PE teachers’ behaviors promoting their students’ out-of-school PA and differences between three European countries. 1146 PE teachers (59.5% females) from France, Italy, and Turkey answered an online questionnaire about guiding students to engage in out-of-school PA, helping them to set PA goals, encouraging in self-monitoring PA, the pedagogical formats of these behaviors and feedback asked to students. RM-MANCOVAs were performed with a 2 Time (before and during the lockdown) × 3Country (France, Italy, Turkey) × 2 Gender factorial design, using teaching years and perceived health as covariates. A significant multivariate main effect Time×Country×Gender (p&lt;.001) was reported for the behaviors promoting students’ PA, with French and Italian teachers increasing some behaviors, while Turkish teachers showing opposite trends. Significant multivariate main effects Time×Country were found for formats supporting the behaviors (p &lt; .001) and for asked feedback formats (p&lt;.001). The massive contextual change imposed by lockdown caused different reactions in teachers from the three countries. Findings are informative for PA promotion and PE teachers’ education.

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Physical activity and exercise in youth mental health promotion: a scoping review

Cited by 209 publications

References 77 publications

Exercise interventions for mental disorders in young people: a scoping review

Exercise interventions for mental disorders in young people: a scoping review

Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

Promoting Physical Activity During School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors in Three European Countries

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