The Effects of Combined Home Training and Walking on the Psychological Distress, Everyday Memory, and Sustained Attention of Women with Major Depressive Disorder

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Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MSc student, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of present study was investigating the effect of combined exercise at home and walking on psychological distress, Everyday Memory and sustained attention of women with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The study has an applied objective and a quasi-experimental design, with experimental and control groups. In 2021, the statistical population comprised all females with MDD attending Kabudar Ahang health center. The sample consisted of 60 of them and had been randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Data was collected using Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Stress, Anxiety, Depression Questionnaire (DASS), the Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ) and the Color and Word Stroop test (SCWT). each experimental group received 24 sessions of training (three times per week), while the control group received no training. Data were analyzed using ANOCVA and SPSS-22 software. The results showed that stress, Anxiety, depression, everyday memory and sustained attention of walking and combined exercise groups improved significantly (p<0.05) and there was no significant difference between them in the all variables except sustained attention (p>0.05); the combined group was significantly better than the walking group in the sustained attention (p=0.014). The results of this study can have implications for the design of exercise training for women with MDD.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 26 October 2024

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History

  • Receive Date: 17 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 11 August 2023
  • Accept Date: 27 August 2023
  • First Publish Date: 26 October 2024
  • Publish Date: 26 October 2024

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