Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the changes in depression factors according to a type of exercise, and to investigate the effects of each type of exercise on depression recovery in elderly women with mild cognitive impairment.BR Method: The subjects were randomly assigned to four groups: AEG (n=10), REG (n=10), CEG (n=10), and CG (n=10). Each exercise was performed for 60 minutes/day and three imt es/week for 12 weeks. Data on differences before and after exercise were analyzed by two-way repeated measures ANOVA using the SPSS 22.0 program. A post-hoc test was conducted using Scheffe to analyze differences between each group. The significance level of hypothesis verification was set-up as α=.05.BR Results: The results of this study are as follows. 1) There were no significant differences between groups and time in serum VEGF. 2) There were significant differences between groups and time as for serum cortisol (p<.01) in AEG (p<.01), REG (p<.01), and CEG (p<.01). They decreased significantly. 3) There were significant differences between groups and time as for GDS-K (p<.01) in AEG (p<.05), REG (p<.001), and CEG (p<.001). They decreased significantly.BR Conclusion: The improvement of neurochemicals related to depressive sympotms is associated with the type of exercise, which has a positive effect on the psychologcial factors of aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, and combined exercise.

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