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Exercise is a potential effective core-treatment modality to prevent and treat depression and improve cognitive performance
  1. Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi1,2,
  2. Fatemeh Oskouie3,
  3. Sedigheh Khanjari4
  1. 1 Psychology, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
  2. 2 Independent Researcher, Rochester, New York, USA
  3. 3 Iran University of Medical Sciences Nursing Care Research Center, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
  4. 4 Iran University of Medical Sciences Center of Nursing and Midwifery Care Research, Tehran, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
  1. Correspondence to Dr Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi; aghassemi11{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104038

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    Commentary on: Noetel M, Sanders T, Gallardo-Gómez D, et al. Effect of exercise on depression: a systematic review and network metanalysis of randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2024:e075847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-075847.

    Implications for practice and research

    • As a low-cost alternative treatment for preventing and treating depression, exercise should be adopted by multidisciplinary healthcare team and integrated into prescribed treatment modalities based on personal characteristics, individual preferences and availability of resources.

    • Future research should focus on inclusion of exercise in practice guidelines for depression and carefully examine types and intensity of exercise to treat depression and improve cognitive health.

    Context

    Nowadays, depression as a leading cause of disability1 2 affects ‘more than 150 million at any moment globaly’.2 Many people with depressive disorder do not respond to medical interventions and even do not have access to the treatment.1 Exercise is usually recommended for patients with …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.