ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
Gender-specific associations between leisure-time physical activity and symptoms of anxiety: the HUNT study.
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- Physical Activity Is Associated With Lower Long-Term Incidence of Anxiety in a Population-Based, Large-Scale Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Women's Physical Activity Behavior and Mental Well-Being.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Associations of self-reported physical activity and anxiety symptoms and status among 7,874 Irish adults across harmonised datasets: a DEDIPAC-study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Change in Physical Activity During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Lockdown in Norway: The Buffering Effect of Resilience on Mental Health.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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- Associations of physical activity with anxiety symptoms and status: results from The Irish longitudinal study on ageing.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2019Article
- Combined Patterns Of Physical Activity And Screen-Related Sedentary Behavior Among Chinese Adolescents And Their Correlations With Depression, Anxiety And Self-Injurious Behaviors.Psychology research and behavior management · 2019Article
- An Exercise Prescription for COVID-19 Pandemic.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe underlying goal of the study was to examine gender-specific effects of leisure-time physical activity on the development of symptoms of anxiety.
methodsThe second wave of a prospective cohort survey (HUNT 2) was conducted during 1995-1997 in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway, with a follow-up in 2006-2008 (HUNT 3). The sample consisted of 12,796 women and 11,195 men with an age range of 19-85 years. A binomial model with a log-link function and generalized linear model analysis with gamma distribution was used to assess the association between physical activity and anxiety symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale anxiety subscale, HADS-A).
resultsA total of 1,211 (9.5 %) women and 650 (5.8 %) men developed HADS-defined anxiety (≥8 on the HADS-A scale). Men who scored in the middle tertile of the calculated physical activity index developed significantly fewer cases of HADS-defined anxiety compared with men in the lowest tertile (p < 0.05). In the gamma regression analysis for women, having higher scores on the moderate-high physical activity was associated with fewer symptoms of anxiety (p < 0.01).
conclusionsWomen developed almost twice as many cases of HADS-defined anxiety compared to men. Significant associations were found between general leisure-time physical activity and anxiety symptoms among women and men, but the true effect is likely to be different from the observed associations due to several threats to the internal validity in the study.
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