ArticleTranslational psychiatry2020
Level and timing of physical activity during normal daily life in depressed and non-depressed individuals.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exploring the digital footprint of depression: a PRISMA systematic literature review of the empirical evidence.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Association between Daily Pattern of Physical Activity and Depression: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of dynamic bedroom lighting on measures of sleep and circadian rest-activity rhythm in inpatients with major depressive disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Association between late afternoon and early evening physical activity and next-day depression and anxiety symptoms among workers in Japan: a two-week longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Group, Subgroup and Person-Specific Longitudinal Associations Between Physical Activity and Affect in Individuals With and Without Depressive and Anxiety Disorders.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Circadian rhythm parameters differentiate euthymic, manic and depressive mood states in bipolar disorders - an explorative pilot study.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2025Article
- Frequency and Correlates of Physical Activity Among Young Adults With Chronic Pain.The Clinical journal of pain · 2025Article
- A new framework for mental illnesses diagnosis using wearable devices aided by improved convolutional neural network.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Work is associated with a more robust rest-activity rhythm and high-intensity physical activity among older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Fractal biomarker of daily activity for women with early onset depression.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- The Dynamic Association Between Physical Activity and Psychological Symptoms in Young People With Major Depressive Disorder: An Active and Passive Sensing Longitudinal Cohort Study.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Wearables in Chronomedicine and Interpretation of Circadian Health.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Association between device-based measured physical activity timing and depression risk: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank participants.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Familial risk for depression is associated with reduced physical activity in young adults: evidence from a wrist-worn actigraphy study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Twenty-four-hour physical activity patterns associated with depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study using big data-machine learning approach.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Detecting major depressive disorder presence using passively-collected wearable movement data in a nationally-representative sample.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
- Individual-specific change points in circadian rest-activity rhythm and sleep in individuals tapering their antidepressant medication: an actigraphy study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the biological rhythms interview of assessment in neuropsychiatry in the community: a large Chinese college student population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Supervised Learning of Physical Activity Features From Functional Accelerometer Data.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2023Article
- A standardized workflow for long-term longitudinal actigraphy data processing using one year of continuous actigraphy from the CAN-BIND Wellness Monitoring Study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Engaging in physical activity is known to reduce depressive symptoms. However, little is known which behavioral factors are relevant, and how patterns of activity change during depressive episodes. We expected that compared to controls, in depressed individuals the level of activity would be lower, the amplitude of 24-h-actigraphy profiles more dampened and daytime activities would start later. We used 14-day continuous-actigraphy data from participants in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) who participated in an ambulatory assessment study. Participants with a depression diagnosis in the past 6 months (n = 58) or its subsample with acute depression (DSM diagnosis in the past 1 month, n = 43) were compared to controls without diagnoses (n = 63). Depression was diagnosed with a diagnostic interview. Actigraphy-derived variables were activity mean levels (MESOR), the difference between peak and mean level (amplitude) and the timing of the activity peak (acrophase), which were estimated with cosinor analysis. Compared to the control group, both depression groups (total: B = -0.003, p = 0.033; acute: B = -0.004, p = 0.005) had lower levels of physical activity. Amplitude was also dampened, but in the acute depression group only (total: B = -0.002, p = 0.065; acute: B = -0.003, p = 0.011). Similarly, the timing of activity was marginally significant towards a later timing of activity in the acute, but not total depression group (total: B = 0.206, p = 0.398; acute: B = 0.405, p = 0.084). In conclusion, our findings may be relevant for understanding how different aspects of activity (level and timing) contribute to depression. Further prospective research is needed to disentangle the direction of the association between depression and daily rest-activity rhythms.
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