Recreational exercise is associated with lower prevalence of depression and anxiety and better quality of life in German people living with HIV
- Sedentarism is a risk factor for depression and anxiety. People living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) have a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression compared to HIV-negative individuals. This cross-sectional study (n = 450, median age 44 (19-75), 7.3% females) evaluates the prevalence rates and prevalence ratio (PR) of anxiety and/or depression in PLWH associated with recreational exercise. A decreased likelihood of having anxiety (PR=0.57; 0.36-0.91; p = 0.01), depression (PR=0.41; 0.36-0.94; p=0.01), and comorbid anxiety and depression (PR = 0,43; 0.24-0.75; p=0.002) was found in exercising compared to non-exercising PLWH. Recreational exercise is associated with a lower risk for anxiety and/or depression. Further prospective studies are needed to provide insights on the direction of this association.
| Author details: | Camilo Germán Alberto Pérez ChaparroORCiDGND, Maria KangasORCiD, Philipp ZechORCiDGND, Felipe B. SchuchORCiD, Michael A. RappORCiDGND, Andreas HeißelORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.1889951 |
| ISSN: | 1360-0451 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33656390 |
| Title of parent work (English): | AIDS care : psychological and socio-medical aspects of AIDS/HIV |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | London [u.a.] |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/03/03 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2024/01/02 |
| Tag: | HIV; anxiety; depression; exercise |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 182 |
| Last Page: | 187 |
| Funding institution: | Fundacion para el futuro de Colombia; Deutsche Akademische AustauschdienstDeutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD); FAZIT Stiftung; University of Potsdam |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften |
| Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften | |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
