CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 250Physical Activity and HealthTreatment of Major DepressionCardiovascular and exercise physiology

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 26 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Comparing aerobic with nonaerobic forms of exercise in the treatment of clinical depression: A randomized trial

Martinsen, Egil W., Hoffart, Asle, Solberg, Øyvind·1989·Comprehensive Psychiatry
DOI 10.1016/0010-440x(89)90057-6
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

We compared aerobic with nonaerobic forms of exercise in the treatment of clinical depression. Ninety-nine inpatients, who met the DMS-III-R criteria for major depression, dysthymic disorder, or depressive disorder not otherwise specified (NOS), took part in the study. They were randomly assigned to two different physical training conditions, aerobic and nonaerobic. In both conditions, one hour of training was performed three times a week for a period of 8 weeks. There was a significant increase in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2 max) in the aerobic group; there was no change in the nonaerobic group regarding this variable. Depression scores in both groups were significantly reduced during the study, but there was no significant difference between the groups. The correlation between increase in physical fitness and reduction in depression scores was low. The study indicates that the antidepressive effects associated with exercises are not restricted to aerobic forms of training.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/0010-440x(89)90057-6

Cites

25 of 25 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 26 references

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 250

Related

Metadata

Authors
Martinsen, E. W., Hoffart, A., & Solberg, Ø.
Affiliations
Modum Bad – Gordon Johnsens stiftelse (NO)
Corresponding author
Martinsen, Egil W.
ORCID
Venue
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1989-07
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
324-331
ISSN
0010-440X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/0010-440x(89)90057-6
OpenAlex
W1991250623
Cited by
250
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 12
FWCI
2.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Keywords
exercise therapy, aerobic exercise, major depressive disorder, dysthymia, physical fitness, VO2max, antidepressant effects, hospitalized patients
MeSH terms
Adult, Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic, Clinical Trials as Topic, Combined Modality Therapy, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Random Allocation, Exercise

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review