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Walking program can help fight depression in stay-at-home women. (Also Relieves Fatigue, Anger).
NEW ORLEANS -- Depression among women who stay at home can be alleviated through participation in a structured walking program, a study has shown.
The findings are in agreement with other studies showing a positive association between exercise and mood, but with greater significance between pre- and posttest scores, Danell Haines, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group.
Women aged 25-33 years who stay at home experience more depression than their peers who work outside the home, possibly due to a perceived lack of socialization and/or intellectual stimulation, said Dr. Haines of the department of Family Medicine at Ohio State University, Columbus. "The mood-exercise relationship has been studied in the general population, but there's a void in the research focusing on women who stay at home."
To determine the antidepressant effect of physical activity in this population, Dr. Haines and colleagues randomized 25 stay-at-home women who did not exercise into a walking group and a control group. The women were patients at a large metropolitan family practice center and were aged 20-40 years; they had ...
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