Get Fit and Overcome Exercise Fear: Empowering Women to Embrace Fitness This Summer
The This Girl Can campaign aims to close the gender exercise ‘enjoyment gap’. By Abi Jackson.
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Study: High-Intensity Exercise Greatly Improves Mental Health in Adults
Vigorous exercise may be more effective than psychotherapy or pharmacological therapy at improving symptoms of anxiety and depression in adults across populations, according to this wide-scale meta-analysis.
The effects of physical exercise on anxiety symptoms of college students: A meta-analysis
ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of an exercise intervention on improving and alleviating anxiety symptoms in college students with a meta-analytical approach.MethodsSeveral databases (e.g., PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library) were used to search for randomized controlled trials (in short, RCTs) on interventions for physical exercise or aerobic exercise in college students with anxiety symptoms. Stata software, version 16.0, was applied sequentially for traditional meta-analysis, subgroup analysis, and publication bias analysis.ResultsA total of nine papers were included. The total literature effect [SMD = −0.55, 95% CI = −0.76 to −0.35, Z = 5.38 (P < 0.001)] indicated that physical activity had a significant effect on alleviating anxiety. Subgroup analysis also showed that exercise interventions using aerobic exercise or yoga were effective in relieving anxiety (SMD = −0.39, 95% CI = −0.74 to −0.04; SMD = −0.76, 95% CI = −1.14 to −0.39).ConclusionPhysical activity interventions were shown to have a positive effect on alleviating anxiety in college students. Aerobic exercise was found to be the optimal mode.
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The effect of physical exercise on the anxiety of college students in the post-pandemic era: The mediating role of social support and proactive personality
Click here for the article published by Frontiers in Psychology. … Physical exercise habits, social support, proactive personality traits, and anxiety of college students have a significant correlation. … the path of influencing social support through physical exercise habits, followed by affecting proactive personality traits, and then impacting anxiety has the strongest explanatory force. … …
Is Exercise as Effective as Medications or Talk Therapy?
Click here for the article published by Psychology Today. Moving your body significantly improves depression, anxiety, and overall health. So why is it not a front-line approach in the United States? While exercise is well-recognized as beneficial to mood and health, it is often overlooked in the initial management of these conditions. The largest meta-analytic …
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Body Work and Exercise for Anxiety Panic Attacks Depression and OCD
Body Work and Exercise for Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression and OCD Christian Jonathan Haverkampf, M.D. Working with the body is often neglected in major schools of psychotherapy, such as psychodynamic psychotherapy and CBT. Depression and anxiety disorders are some of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders with close to one in five of adults exhibiting symptoms. …
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