Trial reportBMC psychiatry2021
Transdiagnostic efficacy of a group exercise intervention for outpatients with heterogenous psychiatric disorders: a randomized controlled trial.
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ImPuls - a Group Therapeutic Exercise Intervention for the Outpatient Psychotherapeutic Context
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of physical exercise on sleep quality in patients with psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Optimal exercise dose and type for improving sleep quality: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of RCTs.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Changes in repetitive negative thinking and stress perception mediate treatment effects of a transdiagnostic exercise intervention.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Long-term outcomes of physical activity counseling in in-patients with major depressive disorder: results from the PACINPAT randomized controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Physical activity and mental health: Does physical disability affect their association?Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Which exercise prescription is most effective for patients with sleep disorders?: a network meta-analysis of 30 randomized controlled trials.Sleep and biological rhythms · 2025Review
- Benefits of multi-micronutrient nutritional formula combined with aerobic exercise on children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: improvements in symptoms, cognition, executive function, and sleep.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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- Physical activity levels associated with insomnia and depressive symptoms in middle-aged and elderly patients with chronic schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Effects of aerobics training on anxiety, depression and sleep quality in perimenopausal women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a Transdiagnostic group-based exercise intervention: study protocol for a pragmatic multi-site randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Effects and Mechanisms of Exercise on the Treatment of Depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundExercise efficaciously reduces disorder-specific symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The current study aimed to examine the efficacy of a group exercise intervention on global symptom severity and disorder-specific symptoms among a mixed outpatient sample.
methodsGroups of inactive outpatients, waiting for psychotherapy, with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, insomnia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders were randomized to a manualized 12-week exercise intervention, combining moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise with techniques for sustainable exercise behaviour change (n = 38, female = 71.1% (n = 27), M
resultsThe intervention significantly improved global symptom severity (d = 0.77, p = .007), depression (d = 0.68, p = .015), anxiety (d = 0.87, p = .002), sleep quality (d = 0.88, p = .001), and increased the amount of exercise (d = 0.82, p < .001), compared to the control group. Post-treatment differences between groups were significant for depression (d = 0.63, p = .031), sleep quality (d = 0.61, p = .035) and the amount of exercise (d = 1.45, p < .001). Across both groups, the reduction of global symptom severity was significantly predicted by an increase of exercise (b = .35, p = .012).
conclusionsThe exercise intervention showed transdiagnostic efficacy among a heterogeneous clinical sample in a realistic outpatient setting and led to sustained exercise behaviour change. Exercise may serve as an efficacious and feasible transdiagnostic treatment option improving the existing treatment gap within outpatient mental health care settings.
trial registrationThe study was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT03542396 , 25/04/2018).
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