Characterizing the affective responses to an acute bout of moderate-intensity exercise among outpatients with schizophrenia.

摘要: Abstract In addition to offering many physical health benefits, exercise may help improve mental among individuals with schizophrenia through regulating affect. Therefore, the purpose of this study is characterize affective responses experienced before, during and after a 10-min bout versus passive sitting schizophrenia. A randomized crossover design compared affect related feelings pleasure arousal at baseline, 6-min into task, immediately post-task, 10min post-task sitting. Thirty participants enroled in study; 28 completed study. Separate mixed model analyses variance were conducted for arousal, test order as between-subject factor, time task within-subject factors. For pleasure, significant main effect x interaction emerged. Post-hoc Bonferroni corrected t -tests ( α =.0125) revealed differences between baseline both post-task. No other effects or interactions Individuals derive acute from exercise. Thus, provide method health. Future studies should examine links behaviours such long-term adherence within population.