Effects of a 6-week at-home exercise intervention on psychological and physical indicators of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Secondary analysis of a pragmatic randomized trial

IF 2.3 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Mental Health and Physical Activity Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.mhpa.2025.100675

Benjamin A. Hives , Brook L. Haight , Mark R. Beauchamp , Yan Liu , Joshua Webster , Boaz Injege , Michael S. Koehle , Eli Puterman

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Abstract

Objective

To examine whether a 6-week at-home exercise intervention, delivered via mobile applications (apps), improves psychological and physical well-being and alleviates ill-being symptoms in adults during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Low active Canadian adults (n = 334) were recruited and randomized to one of three app conditions [Yoga, n = 86; high-intensity interval training (HIIT), n = 82, HIIT + Yoga, n = 83] or a waitlist control condition (n = 83). Those in the exercise conditions (HIIT, Yoga, HIIT + Yoga) were asked to use their respective modules in the apps to complete four 20-min sessions per week for six weeks. Indicators of well-being (flourishing, general mental health, life satisfaction, positive affect, resilience, and perceived physical health) and ill-being (burden of psychosocial problems, negative affect, psychological distress, psychological stress, and physical symptoms) were measured every week over the intervention.

Results

After six weeks, compared to the waitlist control condition, those in the HIIT + Yoga condition improved in all well-being outcomes, those in the Yoga condition showed improvements in flourishing, positive affect, and perceived physical health, and those in the HIIT condition showed no improvements in well-being indicators. None of the three exercise conditions demonstrated any improvement in ill-being indicators compared to the waitlist control condition.

Conclusion

Engagement with at-home exercise apps over 6 weeks can improve multiple facets of well-being (e.g., flourishing, positive affect), especially when a variety of modalities of exercise are presented.

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Mental Health and Physical Activity PSYCHIATRY-

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6.70

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32 days

期刊介绍： The aims of Mental Health and Physical Activity will be: (1) to foster the inter-disciplinary development and understanding of the mental health and physical activity field; (2) to develop research designs and methods to advance our understanding; (3) to promote the publication of high quality research on the effects of physical activity (interventions and a single session) on a wide range of dimensions of mental health and psychological well-being (eg, depression, anxiety and stress responses, mood, cognitive functioning and neurological disorders, such as dementia, self-esteem and related constructs, psychological aspects of quality of life among people with physical and mental illness, sleep, addictive disorders, eating disorders), from both efficacy and effectiveness trials;