Pakkala Inka, Read Sanna, Leinonen Raija, Hirvensalo Mirja, Lintunen Taru, Rantanen Taina
Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Prev Med. 2008 May;46(5):412-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.11.002. Epub 2007 Nov 17.
To examine the effects of physical activity counseling on mood among older people unselected for their depressive symptomatology.
Data are from "Screening and Counseling for Physical Activity and Mobility in Older People" project (SCAMOB), conducted in Finland during 2003-2005. SCAMOB was a 2-year single-blinded randomized controlled trial among 624 participants 75 years and older randomized into physical activity counseling group and control group. Depressive symptoms were assessed at baseline and after 24 months using Center for the Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
Among all the study participants, no effect of intervention was observed. However, among subgroup with minor depressive symptoms at baseline, a significant treatment effect was observed, where depressive symptoms decreased in the intervention group and increased in the control group.
These findings suggest that physical activity counseling may reduce depression among those with minor depressive symptoms, which warrants for future studies.
研究身体活动咨询对未因抑郁症状而被筛选的老年人情绪的影响。
数据来自2003年至2005年在芬兰开展的“老年人身体活动与行动能力筛查及咨询”项目（SCAMOB）。SCAMOB是一项为期2年的单盲随机对照试验，624名75岁及以上的参与者被随机分为身体活动咨询组和对照组。使用流行病学研究中心抑郁量表在基线和24个月后评估抑郁症状。
在所有研究参与者中，未观察到干预效果。然而，在基线时有轻微抑郁症状的亚组中，观察到显著的治疗效果，干预组的抑郁症状减轻，而对照组的抑郁症状增加。
这些发现表明，身体活动咨询可能会减轻有轻微抑郁症状者的抑郁，这值得未来进一步研究。
