Effect of Tai Chi on depressive symptoms amongst Chinese older patients with depressive disorders: a randomized clinical trial

The effects of physical exercise on depressive symptoms among the aged: a systematic review

“…In addition, full outcome data were available in three studies reporting no drop-outs and stating no deviations from random allocation before the analysis (McNeil et al, 1991;Singh et al, 1997;Chou et al, 2004). The analysis was not conducted according to intention to treat principle in three studies due to a false inclusion (Mather et al, 2002), missing outcome data in depressive symptoms (Netz et al, 1994) and because of a high drop out rate in control conditions (Emery and Gatz, 1990).…”

“…Blinding at outcome assessment was mentioned in five papers (Singh et al, 1997;Mather et al, 2002;Penninx et al, 2002;Chin A Paw et al, 2004;Chou et al, 2004). Four studies adequately described both allocation concealment and blinding (Singh et al, 1997;Mather et al, 2002;Penninx et al, 2002;Chin A Paw et al, 2004).…”

Effects of Tai Chi exercises on self-efficacy and psychological health

“…Of these 20, three studies were rejected because the intervention was a combination of exercises, did not mainly comprise TC exercises, or was not clearly described, whereas three other studies were not included because psychological health was not the main outcome. Thus, details of 14 studies are presented according to study design in Tables 3 and 4 [3,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. A total of eight randomized controlled studies and six nonrandomized ones were, thus, considered in this analysis.…”

Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

“…Seven observational studies with relatively large sample sizes reinforced the beneficial association between Tai Chi practice and psychological health. Notably, the review found that Tai Chi tended to reduce depression compared to various controls among individuals with osteoarthritis (Fransen et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2009), rheumatoid arthritis (Wang, 2008b) fibromyalgia (Taggart et al, 2003;Wang et al, 2010b), depression disorders (Chou et al, 2004), sedentary obese women (Dechamps et al, 2009), and elderly participants with cardiovascular disease risk factors (Taylor-Piliae et al, 2006). This positive result was associated with improvement in symptoms and physical function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic conditions.…”