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Review: exercise may moderately improve depressive symptoms
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How effective is exercise as a treatment for depression?
Symptoms of depression (continuous or dichotomous outcomes).
Systematic review with meta-analysis.
MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Sports Discus, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, hand search of BMJ, JAMA, Arch Intern Med, N Engl J Med, J R Soc Med, Compr Psychiatry, Br J Psychiatry, Acta Psychiatr Scand, Br J Sports Med and of bibliographies of all retrieved articles; search to March 2007.
Two reviewers independently selected and appraised randomised controlled trials of any type of exercise as a treatment for depression. Inclusion criteria: adults aged 18 years and over with depression (any method of diagnosis and any severity), studies comparing exercise with no treatment (wait-list or placebo, such as social activity) or with any other intervention (including medication, psychotherapy or complementary therapies), or where exercise was an adjunct treatment compared against
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