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THE EFFECT OF “PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAM” ON THE DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND QUALITY OF LIFE

Objectives:Physical activity might have positive influences on diminishing anxiety, stress and depression; sustaining mental health and providing liveliness. This study is conducted in order to evaluate the influence of ?Physical Activity Program? applied on elders in nursing home on the depressive symptoms and quality of life. Methods of research:This study is designed in experimental manner with pretest posttest design. The population of the study is determined according to the inclusion exclusion criteria and it includes 80 individuals aged over 65 (40 experimental group and 40 control group) who live in nursing home belonging to Metropolitan Municipality. Prepared in compliance with the literature, the ?Physical Activity Program? comprises of 10 minutes of warm up, 20 minutes of rhythmic exercise, 10 minutes of cool down and 30 minutes of free walking and it is applied under the supervision of the researchers four times a week for ten weeks in total. As pretest posttest design, the data is collected with socio-demographic features information form, Beck depression scale and SF 36 quality of life scale. For the evaluation of the data, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Mann Whitney U and Oneway ANOWA tests are utilized. Results: While it is detected that the score averages of the depression scale of the individuals in the experimental group of the research before the Physical Activity Program decreases by the end of the program (p

The Effect of 10 Week Exercise Program on the Depression Level of the Adolescents

Introduction And Objective: Depression is the most common disease of our century which is a very serious individual and social mental disease due to its recurrence and chronicity rate, significant suicidal risk and its creating failure. The influences of exercise has been examined in several studies. This research is conducted in order to examine the influence of exercise on the depression level of adolescents. Method: This is a control group study with a pretest posttest design in which the adolescents perform regular exercises. The study is conducted with 40 high school senior students - 20 initiative and 20 control group subjects - who are studying in a high school in Antalya city. The initiative group is taken into a weekly ?5 day 50 minute? exercise program for 10 weeks. Beck depression scale is applied on the participants before ( week 0) and after (at the end of week 10) the exercise program. For the evaluation of the data, chi square, Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon tests are utilized. Findings: The age average of the participant students is 17.04±1.17; also it is detected that 57% of them are female students and 24.2% of them are slightly overweight. While the depression level score average of the initiative group before the exercise program is 22.12±3.42, this score decreases to 15.32±2.47 after the program and this difference is found to be statistically significant (p 0.05).Conclusion: According to the results obtained, it is seen that the 10 week exercise program which is applied on the initiative group is influential on decreasing the depression level score averages of the adolescents. These findings might be a base for encouraging the students towards regular exercise to be able to have a better mental health.