Undergraduate physical activity and depressive symptoms: A national study

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 230-241

  Elliot, Catherine A ^a   Kennedy, Catherine ^a   Morgan, George ^a   Anderson, Sharon K ^a   Morris, Debra ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Depression symptoms; Exercise; Physical activity; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859817529     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: 19457359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.36.2.8     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Craft LL, Freund KM, Culpepper L, Perna FM. Intervention study of exercise for depressive symptoms in women. J Womens Health. 2007;16:1499-1509. (Pubitemid 350233101)
2. Donaghy ME. Exercise can seriously improve your mental health: fact or fiction? Adv Physiotherapy. 2007;9:76-88. (Pubitemid 46767372)
3. Harris AH, Cronkite R, Moos R. Physical activity, exercise coping, and depression in a 10-year cohort study of depressed patients. J Affective Disord. 2006;93:79-85. (Pubitemid 43816052)
4. Wiles NJ, Haase AM, Gallacher J, et al. Physical activity and common mental disorder: results from the Caerphilly study. Am J Epidemiol. 2007;165:946-954. (Pubitemid 46536656)
5. Blumenthal JA, Babyak MA, Doraiswamy PM, et al. Exercise and pharmacotherapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder. Psychosom Med. 2007;69:587-596. (Pubitemid 47469807)
6. Birkeland MS, Torsheim T, Wold B. A longitudinal study of the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and depressed mood among adolescents. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2009;10:25-34.
7. Dishman RK, Washburn RA, Heath GW. Physical Activity Epidemiology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics; 2004.
8. Craft LL. Exercise and clinical depression: examining 2 psychological mechanisms. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2005;6:151-171.
9. Adams TB, Moore MT, Dye J. The relationship between physical activity and mental health in a national sample of college females. Womens Health. 2007;45:69-85.
10. Galper DI, Trivedi MH, Barlow CE, et al. Inverse Association between physical inactivity and mental health in men and women. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006;38(1):173-178. (Pubitemid 43062974)
11. Giacobbi PR, Hausenblas HA, Frye N. A naturalistic assessment of the relationship between personality, daily life events, leisuretime exercise, and mood. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2005;6:67-81. (Pubitemid 39473708)
12. Taliaferro LA, Rienzo BA, Pigg RM Jr, et al. Associations between physical activity and reduced rates of hopelessness, depression, and suicidal behavior among college students. J Am Coll Health. 2009;57:427-435.
13. Harbour VJ, Behrens TK, Kim HS, Kitchens CL. Vigorous physical activity and depressive symptoms in college students. J Phys Activity Health. 2008;5(4):516-526.
14. American College Health Association Task Force on National Health Objectives for 2010. Healthy Campus 2010: Making It Happen. Baltimore, MD; 2002.
15. American College Health Association. National College Health Assessment: Generalizability, Reliability, and Validity Assessment. Date unknown. http://www.achancha.org/grvanalysis.html. Accessed August 1, 2009.
16. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Asso ciation; 2000.
17. Pratt LA, Brody DJ. Depression in the United States Household Population, 2005-2006. NCHS Data Brief. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Publication No. 7 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db07.htm. Accessed August 14, 2009.
18. Fox MA, Connolly BA, Snyder TD. Youth Indicators, 2005: Trends in the Well-being of American Youth. National Center for Education Statistics, US Dept of Education; 2005.
19. Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report, 2008. Washington, DC: US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2008.
20. American College Health Association. American College Health Association National College Health Assessment spring 2006 reference group data report (abridged). J Am Coll Health. 2007;55:195-206.
21. American College Health Association. American College Health Association -National College Health Assessment: Reference Group Executive Summary Spring 2007. Baltimore, MD: American College Health Association; 2007.
22. American College Health Association. Publications and Reports: Original ACHA-NCHA. Available at: http://www.acha-ncha.org/reports-ACHA-NCHAoriginal. html. Accessed August 2, 2009.
23. Barr V, Rando R, Krylowicz B, Winfield E. The Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors Annual Survey. Available at: http://aucccd.org/img/pdfs/directors-survey-2009-nm.pdf. Accessed October 2, 2010.
24. Michael KD, Huelsman TJ, Gerard C, et al. Depression among college students: trends in prevalence and treatment seeking. Couns Clin Psychol J. 2006;3(2):60-70.
25. Miller M, Azrael D, Hepburn L, et al. The association between changes in household firearm ownership and rates of suicide in the United States, 1981-2002. Inj Prev. 2006;12:178-182. (Pubitemid 44032577)
26. Skelton R. The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Edinburgh, England: Edinburgh University Press; 2006.
27. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS). 2007. Available at: www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html. Accessed January 5, 2011.
28. Goldsmith SK, Pellmar TC, Kleinman AM, Bunney WE. Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2002.
29. Piccinelli M, Homen FG. Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1997.
30. Murray JL, Lopez AD. The Global Burden of Disease: A Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors in 1990 and Projected to 2020. Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, World Health Organization; 1997.
31. Kessler RC, McGonagle KA, Zhao S, et al. Lifetime and 12 month prevalence of DSM-111-R psychiatric disorders in the United States. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51:8-19.
32. Bracke P. The three year persistence of depressive symptoms in men and women. Soc Sci Med. 2000;51:51-64. (Pubitemid 30157917)
33. van Noorden MS, Giltay EJ, den Hollander-Gijsman ME, et al. Gender differences in clinical characteristics in a naturalistic sample of depressive outpatients: The Leiden Routine Outcome Monitoring Study. J Affective Disord. 2010;125(1-3):116-123.
34. Kornstein SG, Sloan DM. Depression and Gender. In: Stein DJ, Kupfer DJ Schatzberg AF, eds. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2005:687-698.
35. Marcus SM, Young EA, Kerber KB, et al. Gender differences in depression: findings from the STAR*D study, J Affective Disord. 2005;87:141-150. (Pubitemid 41039936)
36. Marcus SM, Kerber KB, RushAJ, et al. Sex differences in depression symptoms in treatment-seeking adults: confirmatory analyses from the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression Study. Compr Psychiatry. 2008;49:238-246.
37. Verhagen M. Familiality of major depressive disorder and gender differences in comorbidity. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2008;118:130-138. (Pubitemid 351962159)
38. Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, et al. World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2002.
39. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. 2007. Integrated postsecondary education data system (IPEDS). Spring 2008. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08-194.asp. Accessed January 5, 2011.
40. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study: 2008 Undergraduate Students. Available at: http://nces.ed.gov/dasolv2/tables/displayTable.asp?sessionID= A02BE1FA-3A64-4323-9F20-F79AB163CBEA&sequenceID=1&returncode=SUCCESS. Accessed February 17, 2011.
41. American College Health Association. American College Health Association: National College Health Assessment. 2003. Available at: http://www.acha-ncha. org/sample-survey.html. Accessed August 2, 2009.
42. Vaske JJ, Gliner JA, Morgan GA. Communicating judgments about practical significance: Effect size, confidence intervals and odds ratios. Hum Dimens Wildl. 2002;7:287-300.
43. Conn VS. Depressive symptom outcomes of physical activity interventions: meta-analysis findings. Ann Behav Med. 2010;39(2):128-138.
44. Carter JD, Frampton CM, Mulder RT, et al. The relationship of demographic, clinical, cognitive and personality variables to the discrepancy between self and clinician rated depression. J Affect Disord. 2010;124(1-2):202-206.
45. Flynn JJ, Hollenstein T, Mackey A. The effect of suppressing and not accepting emotions on depressive symptoms: Is suppression different for men and women? Pers Individual Differences. 2010;49(6):582-586.
46. Trivedi MH, Greer TL, Grannemann BD, et al. Exercise as an augmentation strategy for treatment of major depression. J Psychiatr Pract. 2006;12:4205-4213.
47. Ratey J. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company; 2008.