Adherence to exercise and patients' evaluation of physical exercise in a comprehensive treatment programme for depression

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Abstract
Forty-three patients who had been treated in hospital for major depression were studied 1 to 2 years after discharge. Patients retrospectively ranked physical exercise as the most important element in the comprehensive treatment programme. Most subjects continued with regular exercise after discharge, and most of these exercised aerobically at least 2 h a week. Exercisers tended to have lower depression scores at follow-up examination than nonexercisers.

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