Effect of exercise training on psychological outcomes in adults with overweight or obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Summary: This study systematically identified the effects of exercise on multiple psychological outcomes among adults with overweight/obesity, also assessing whether these effects differed across exercise types, genders, age, and body mass index (BMI) categories. Pubmed, Web of Science, PsychInfo, and SportDiscus were searched up to October 2019 for peer‐reviewed papers assessing exercise training effects on psychosocial outcomes in adults with overweight/obesity. Thirty‐six articles, 32 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), were included in this review. Most interventions were supervised (65%), ranging between 6 and 76 weeks (median = 12). Sixteen psychological outcomes were studied. Exercise induced positive changes in quality of life but did not reduce depression. Large effect sizes were observed on quality of life's physical component, but exercise was also able to improve vitality and mental health. Most psychological outcomes (e.g., body image, anxiety, and perceived stress) are poorly studied, evidencing either conflicting or null exercise effects. Exercise self‐efficacy and autonomous motivations were also consistently improved. Exercise types and gender seem to moderate exercise psychological effects. Exercise training programs might lead to positive changes in some psychological outcomes, especially in quality of life, in adults with overweight and obesity, but more studies, with greater systematization in program characteristics, and longer follow‐ups are still required to allow more solid conclusions.
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Aerobic training, while less effective for preserving lean mass, provides important complementary cardiovascular and psychological benefits.
“Aerobic training, while less effective for preserving lean mass, provides important complementary cardiovascular and psychological benefits.”
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The Results (Study characteristics; page not provided) report reduced depression in one aerobic-training group, supporting a psychological benefit in that study. The Results (Exercise-induced effects on depression; page not provided) also report a nonsignificant pooled effect. The cited paper does not establish the claim about lean-mass preservation or complementary cardiovascular benefits. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Carraça, E. V., Encantado, J., Battista, F., Beaulieu, K., Blundell, J. E., Busetto, L., van Baak, M., Dicker, D., Ermolao, A., Farpour‐Lambert, N., Pramono, A., Woodward, E., Bellicha, A., & Oppert, J.
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- Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (PT)
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- University of Padua (IT)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Department of Human Biology Maastricht University Medical Centre+ Maastricht Netherlands
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- European Association for the Study of Obesity (GB)
- Inserm (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Keywords
- exercise training, overweight, obesity, psychological outcomes, quality of life, depression, vitality, mental health, body image, anxiety, perceived stress, exercise self-efficacy, autonomous motivation, exercise type, gender differences, body mass index
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- Adult, Humans, Obesity, Quality of Life, Exercise, Body Mass Index, Overweight
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 ›
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