Showing papers in "Mental Health and Physical Activity in 2010"

TL;DR: While preliminary, this study is one of the first to demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating aerobic exercise during drug abuse treatment, and those who attended at least 75% of the exercise sessions had significantly better substance use outcomes than those who did not.

TL;DR: There is a dearth of mediation studies in the field of physical activity and mental health, which explains why not much is known about the underlying mechanisms of influence, and an array of experimental and statistical methods are available to unravel how and why physical activity affects various aspects of mental health.

TL;DR: Objectively assessed MVPA is independently associated with self-rated health and was associated with psychological health, while the null findings with regards to psychological health might partly reflect selection biases associated with the healthy nature of this sub-sample of participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical evidence review of the relationship between physical activity and mental wellbeing among young people was carried out and a wider system orientation was adopted, deploying the realistic evaluation framework to gain insight into the nature of the association, why might there be an association and how might we best deliver interventions to exploit potential association.

TL;DR: The context in which a theoretically driven physical activity counselling intervention was developed as a pragmatic treatment for primary care patients with depression is described, and a detailed description of how it was operationalised is provided.

TL;DR: This intervention was feasible and shows that exercise can reduce the risk of depression in employees with sedentary jobs, an inactive lifestyle, and a high-risk of depression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated if leisure time physical activity moderates the relationship between stress and psychological functioning (depression, anxiety, self-esteem) among Norwegian adolescents 13-18 years old.

TL;DR: Investigation in a healthy sample of seniors found stressful life events in the elderly are associated with a low level of habitual physical activity, particularly in men who take little exercise of moderate intensity.

TL;DR: The Fit2Quit study is an example of a large, pragmatic randomized controlled trial in a community setting that determines the effects of a home and community-based exercise intervention on smoking abstinence at six months when used as an adjunct to usual care.

TL;DR: The Getting Physical on Cigarettes project aims to be the first clinical trial to appropriately evaluate the effectiveness of home-based lifestyle exercise maintenance program in assisting women to prevent smoking relapse and maintain exercise and weight following the termination of a structured and supervised exercise and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) smoking cessation intervention.

TL;DR: It is found that patients with higher depressive symptoms may fail to use appropriate self-regulatory strategies for exercise and action control worked as a mediator between exercise intentions and behavior.

TL;DR: Clinical research into the role of physical activity as an adjunctive treatment for persons with serious mental disorders, notably bipolar disorder, has been less common due to ethical concerns about aggravating patient symptoms or possessing adequate clinical training to manage potential psychiatric adverse events.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural regression analyses of self-report data compared the degree to which activity-based global self-esteem, physical selfesteem, exercise task efficacy, and exercise self-regulatory efficacy were associated with decreases in psychometric measures of depressive symptoms and depressive risk for a non-clinical sample of 147 young adult Hispanics (Mexican American Whites) and 153 Anglos (non-Hispanic Western European American Whites).

TL;DR: Men's Mental Health and Physical Activity and Mental Health (MENPA) as mentioned in this paper ) is a journal dedicated to the development and understanding of the field of physical activity and mental health.