ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2021
Physical Exercise Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms Among Elderly Chinese Women: Focus on Exercise Components.
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- The Effects of Various Types of Physical Exercise on Health Outcomes in Older Adults with Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials.Depression and anxiety · 2024Pooled it
- Factors associated with depression in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Unveiling the chain mediation model of sleep quality and fatigue in linking subjective exercise experience to depression in adolescent.PloS one · 2026Article
- Influence of exercise and dietary habits on the association of alpha-actinin-3 gene polymorphisms with physical function and body composition in community-dwelling individuals aged 60 years and older.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2025Article
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- Physical exercise habits are related with reduced prevalence of falling among elderly women in China.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Duration of Keeping an Exercise Habit and Mental Illness and Life Attitude among University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- An Analysis of Women's Fitness Demands and Their Influencing Factors in Urban China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Individual and Synergistic Relationships of Low Muscle Mass and Low Muscle Function with Depressive Symptoms in Korean Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeSeveral studies have investigated the association between physical exercise and depressive symptoms in the elderly population. However, the relationship between components of physical exercise such as frequency, intensity, duration, and depressive symptoms remains unclear. This study was conducted on elderly Chinese women to investigate the association between each component of physical exercise and depressive symptoms and to examine the association between physical exercise patterns and depressive symptoms. PATIENTS AND
methodsA total of 1429 Chinese women aged ≥60 years were enrolled in this cross-sectional study and provided information on their exercise behaviors through a self-reported questionnaire. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (ORs) to measure the association between exercise behaviors and depression.
resultsHigh frequency, moderate intensity, long duration, and exercise habits were significantly associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms. Furthermore, participants with more than one optimal exercise behavior were more likely to have a lower risk of depressive symptoms. These associations were not changed after adjustment for confounding factors.
conclusionThis study shows that exercise behaviors were significantly associated with the risk of developing depression. This finding suggests that keeping an optimal exercise behavior may be associated with a lower risk of depressive symptoms in elderly Chinese women.
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