ArticleAfrican health sciences2020
Aerobic exercise affects sleep, psychological wellbeing and immune system parameters among subjects with chronic primary insomnia.
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- Global trends and hotspots in exercise therapy for insomnia research: bibliometric and visual analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of brisk walking and Tai Chi interventions on sleep quality in university students with insomnia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Association Between Electronic Device Usage, Physical Activity, and Sleep Quality Related to Cervicogenic Headache Among College Students in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Changes in Sleep Quality, Depressive Symptoms, and Sleep-Wake Preference Among University Students Participating in an Eight-Week Evening Aerobic Exercise Program: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Physical activity for insomnia: a scoping review within the Nursing Science Precision Health model.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Impact of aerobic exercise on immune components across healthy and diseased populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Review
- Effect of Physical Exercise on Sleep Quality and Depressive Symptoms in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Review
- Development and Validation of a Multivariate Diagnostic Model for Major Depressive Disorder With Comorbid Insomnia Based on Lymphocyte Subsets and Resting-State Functional MRI.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- The rise of unmanned gyms: innovation, spatiotemporal characteristics, and the future of urban fitness.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- Associations of Electronic Device Use and Physical Activity with Headaches in Saudi Medical Students.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Association between physical activity and sleep quality among healthcare students.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
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- Time Spent Outdoors and Associations with Sleep, Optimism, Happiness and Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria.Clocks & sleep · 2023Article
- Does physical activity level have an impact on long-term treatment response in temporomandibular disorders: protocol for a prospective study.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Role of exosomes and exosomal microRNA in muscle-Kidney crosstalk in chronic kidney disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Editor's choice: this December 2020.African health sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic primary insomnia is characterized by long-term difficulties in maintaining and initiating sleep, too early waking up, poor mood, fatigue, impaired concentration and poor quality of life. Exercise training is recommended to prevent and alleviate sleep disorders.
objectiveThe aim of the study was to investigate the influence of aerobic exercise training on quality of sleep, psychological wellbeing and immune system among subjects with chronic primary insomnia. MATERIAL AND
methodsEighty previously sedentary subjects with chronic primary insomnia subjects enrolled in this study, their age ranged from 35-56 years. All participants were randomly assigned to supervised aerobic exercise intervention group (group A, n=40) or control group (group B, n=40). Polysomnographic recordings for sleep quality assessment, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Profile of Mood States(POMS), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), number of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ T cells count and CD4/CD8 ratio were measured before and at the end of the study after six months.
resultsThere was a significant increase in the total sleep duration, sleep efficiency and sleep onset latency in group(A) after six months of aerobic exercise training, while, wake time after sleep onset and rapid eye movement (REM) latency significantly reduced after six months of aerobic training compared with values obtained prior to aerobic exercise training. Also, the mean values of BDI, POMS, CD3 count, CD4 count and CD8 count decreased significantly and the mean value of RSES significantly increased in group (A) after the aerobic exercise training, while the results of the control group were not significant. Moreover, there were significant differences between both groups at the end of the study.
conclusionExercise training can be considered as a non-pharmacological modalty for modifying sleep quality, psychological wellbeing and immune system among subjects with chronic primary insomnia.
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