The effectiveness of aerobic exercise on depression, automatic thought, dysfunctional assumption, and the early maladaptive schemas

authors:

avatar Kheirollah Sadeghi 1 , avatar Arash Parsa Moghadam 2 , * , avatar Seyed Mojtaba Ahmadi 1 , avatar Aliakbar Parvizifard 1 , avatar Akram Ahmadzade 2 , avatar Ahmad Mazaheri 1 , avatar Mahsa Nazarali 3

Department of clinical psychology, Faculty of medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
Student Research Committee, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
Department of physical education, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
Journal of Clinical Research in Paramedical Sciences: Vol.5, issue 1; e81445
published online: April 11, 2016
article type: Research Article
received: August 10, 2015
accepted: January 29, 2016

How To Cite Sadeghi K , Parsa Moghadam A, Ahmadi S M , Parvizifard A , Ahmadzade A, et al. The effectiveness of aerobic exercise on depression, automatic thought, dysfunctional assumption, and the early maladaptive schemas. J Clin Res Paramed Sci. 2016;5(1):e81445. 

Abstract

Introduction: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in which medication is the most common treatment. Concerning the side effects and the high expense of these treatments, developing the non-pharmaceutics treatments seem to be a necessity. The current study investigated the effectiveness of aerobic exercise on depression, automatic thought, dysfunctional assumption, and the early maladaptive schemas of depressed students.
Methods: In this randomized clinical trial study, the subjects were 48 students who were met depression criteria by structured clinical interview (DSM-IV-TR). The obtained data was analysed through conducting descriptive statistics (frequency and mean of standard deviation) and the inferential statistics (ANCOVA) via SPSS 16.
Results: There was a significant difference between the mean of subjects’ scores in depression female (P= 0.009), and male (p=0.021). Although there was decreased between the mean of subjects’ scores in Automatic Thought and Dysfunctional assumption, but this difference was not significant. There was a significant difference between the mean of subjects’ scores in vulnerability to harm or illness (P<0.05) and self-sacrifice (P<0.05). 
Conclusion: : Totally, the results indicated that aerobic exercise can be effective as a treatment or an additional psychological and medication treatment for depression.

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