A Qualitative Exploration of Men's Experiences of an Integrated Exercise/CBT Mental Health Promotion Programme

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Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Patients with Mental Illness in a Veterans Inpatient Psychiatric Unit: A Review of the Literature

“…However, the articles were found to be a collection of different methods and designs. Designs ranging from qualitative studies (Firth et al, 2016;McArdle, McGale, & Gaffney, 2012) to quantitative (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Oretel-Knochel et al, 2014;Pfaff et al, 2014;Powers et al, 2015;Strassnig et al, 2015;Subramaniapillai et al, 2016;Toups et al, 2017) and a mix-method design (Browne, Mihas, & Penn, 2016). Methods found were exploratory (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Browne et al, 2016;Firth et al, 2016), experimental (Oretel-Knochel et al, 2014;Strassnig et al, 2015;Toups et al, 2017), ethnographic (McArdle et al, 2012, prospective (Pfaff et al, 2014), pilot (Powers et al, 2015), and cross-sectional (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Subramaniapillai et al, 2016).…”

“…Other major themes found in the reviews were preference such as exercise choice, exercise structure, and exercise length (Browne et al, 2016;McArdle et al, 2012;Subramaniapillai et al, 2016), which helped improve compliance in one study (McArdle et al, 2012). Another theme found is symptom severity (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Firth et al, 2016;McArdle et al, 2012;Pfaff et al, 2014;Powers et al, 2015) and exercise was effective in reducing mental illness symptom severity in three studies (Firth et al, 2016;McArdle., 2012;Powers et al, 2015).…”

“…Mental illness diagnoses were a focus of the sample groups for the reviewed studies, which included depression or major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Six of the articles were related to depression and MDD (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Browne et al, 2016;McArdle et al, 2012;Oretel-Knochel et al, 2014;Pfaff et al, 2014;Toups et al, 2017) and one PTSD (Powers et al, 2015). Exercise as an intervention was found to be beneficial in six studies for treating mental illnesses (Firth et al, 2016;McArdle et al, 2012;Oretel-Knochel et al, 2014;Powers et al, 2015;Strassnig et al, 2015;Toups et al, 2017) along with other related subthemes.…”

“…Studies were conducted in different facilities. Some settings were inpatient based on a psychiatric unit (Bonsaksen & Lerdal, 2012;Oretel-Knochel et al, 2014), outpatient (Browne et al, 2016;Firth et al, 2016;Subramaniapillai et al, 2016;Toups et al, 2017), physical training facilities (McArdle et al, 2012;Strassnig et al, 2015), home-based (Pfaff et al, 2014), and other settings otherwise not noted or vague in description (Powers et al, 2015). While the samples were not vague, there were a variety of sample sizes and diagnoses that were included.…”

“…Some studies had an even representation of male and female subjects while others had skewed numbers of males (McArdle et al, 2012) and females (Powers et al, 2015). Other sample focus was at the client and clinicians (Browne et al, 2016).…”