Systematic review of the effect of physical activity and religiosity on anxiety, depression, stress and quality of life in older people

Helena Andrade Figueira,Maria Aparecida De Luca Nascimento,Rodrigo Gomes De Souza Vale,Jefferson Da Silva Novaes,Joanir Pereira Passos,Olivia Andrade Figueira,Alan Andrade Figueira,Carlos Roberto Lyra Da Silva

doi:10.33448/rsd-v10i5.10150

Abstract

Aims: A systematic review to determine the effect of physical activity and religiosity on anxiety, depression, stress and quality of life in older people. Methods: The LILACS, MEDLINE/PUBMED, SCIELO, and COCHRANE databases were searched. Titles, abstracts and keywords of original articles published in English from January 1990 to January 2019 were examined using the following DeCS descriptors: anxiety, depression, stress, quality of life, active, sedentary, religiosity, ageing, aging, older people. The operator ‘or’ was used between the descriptors ageing, aging and older people. In the screening, exclusion criteria were applied. Eighteen studies, from the initial sample of 47,494, remained at the end of this process. Results: This systematic review found that most of these eighteen studies focus on depression (16), stress (12), anxiety (11) and QOL (11). Depression was the foremost ageing concern. Conclusions: Although these descriptors are so often studied today, their synchronized relationship has not yet been studied. Further studies should be conducted to assess the effect of physical activity and religiosity on depression, anxiety, stress and quality of life in older people.

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Worldwide, the ageing human population has become a major challenge of the twenty-first century(Figueira, Giani, et al, 2009)(Figueira, Figueira, et al, 2009)(Figueira et al, 2008); globally, the population is ageing rapidly and will double in the 50 years (World Health Organization (WHO), 2017)
This research in its first phase identified a total of 47,494 articles utilizing both the individual descriptors and their combination: depression (7086 articles), anxiety (4804 articles), stress (10385 articles), religiosity (321 articles), Quality of life (QOL) (18576 articles), active ageing / aging / aged / older people (3906 articles) and sedentary older people (2416 articles)
Meisenhelder (Meisenhelder, 2003), in a random community survey of 217 older people, concluded that mental health is an outcome related to spiritual indices for older people of both sexes but mental health correlates with different indices for each sex: cognitive coping responses are associated with lower anxiety and depression in women (p

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The ageing human population has become a major challenge of the twenty-first century(Figueira, Giani, et al, 2009)(Figueira, Figueira, et al, 2009)(Figueira et al, 2008); globally, the population is ageing rapidly and will double in the 50 years (WHO, 2017). Impacting QOL is depression, and worldwide, it is a common and important cause of morbidity and mortality (WHO, 2017). Depression, anxiety and stress have been found to be associated with negative emotions and pain in different studies (Tang & Tse, 2014). Dysfunctional beliefs about emotions play an important role in the aetiology and maintenance of anxiety, explaining unique variances in perceived stress, trait anxiety, low self-esteem and poor overall QOL (De Castella et al, 2014). Changes in subjects’ beliefs about their emotions may play an important role in QOL(De Castella et al, 2014), as well as health responsibility and stress management, which are key to QOL improvement (Zhang et al, 2018)

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