The acute effects of aerobic exercise on sleep in patients with unipolar depression: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Insomnia increases the risk of negative disease trajectory, relapse, and suicide in patients with depression. We aimed at investigating the effects of a single bout of aerobic exercise, performed after 02:00 pm, on the subsequent night's sleep in patients with depression.

Methods

The study was designed as a two-arm parallel-group, randomized, outcome assessor-blinded, controlled, superiority trial. Patients between 18 and 65 years of age with a primary diagnosis of unipolar depression were included. The intervention was a single 30-minute bout of moderate aerobic exercise. The control group sat and read for 30 minutes. The primary outcome was sleep efficiency measured by polysomnography. Secondary outcomes were other polysomnographic variables, subjective sl

SUBMITTER: Brupbacher G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598185 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature