“…After removing duplicates and animal studies (n ¼ 511), the remaining articles were screened based on the title and the abstract and then 439 studies were excluded, leaving 25 full-text articles. Of these, two were excluded as they did not evaluate the effect of exercise intervention (Debussche et al, 2012;Menard et al, 2007), three were excluded as they used different exercise interventions (Duruturk & O ¨zko ¨slu ¨, 2019;Saiiari & Moslehi, 2011;Schmid et al, 2018;Zuo et al, 2020), one was excluded as it did not measure psychological aspects (Hsieh et al, 2018), one was a non-RCT (Pibernik-Okanovic ´et al, 2015;Sanches et al, 2020), and one was excluded as its control group participated in the exercise training (Thind et al, 2018). Finally, 17 RCTs (Aylin et al, 2009;Collins et al, 2011;Duijzer et al, 2017;Gallagher et al, 2014;Kempf & Martin, 2013;Lambers et al, 2008;Lincoln et al, 2011;McKay et al, 2001;Mousavi Gilani & Feizabad, 2019;Myers et al, 2013;Nicolucci et al, 2012;Oh et al, 2010;Osama & Shehab, 2015;Pibernik-Okanovic ´et al, 2015;Sardar et al, 2014;Schneider et al, 2016;Tomas-Carus et al, 2016) were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis.…”