Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine.
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2021 Mar;25(6):2808-2821. doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202103_25443.
In response to the COVID-19 disaster, people have developed several psychological problems mainly stress, anxiety, and depression. These psychological problems have been seen in either normal people during the lockdown (who are waiting to get infected with COVID-19) and patients with COVID-19 (who are waiting for death). These psychological problems adversely affect immune functions causing more increase in the severity of COVID-19 associated disorders and death rates. Increasing the aerobic capacity is one of the effective methods that could be used to decrease stress, anxiety, and depression. Besides, increasing the aerobic capacity increases immune functions through autonomic regulation. Thus, this review was developed to summarize the effect of increasing the aerobic capacity on psycho-immune hormones commonly disturbed in people during the lockdown or patients with COVID-19 infection.
This review was carried out by searching through Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO, Medline databases. The search was conducted over clinical trials, literature reviews, and systematic reviews. The search included the possible effects of increasing the aerobic capacity on the functions of psycho-immune hormones.
This review found that increasing the aerobic capacity can decrease psychological problems commonly seen in people with COVID-19 and increase immune functions by modulating the levels of glucocorticoid, oxytocin, insulin, thyroid hormones.
This review demonstrated that increasing the aerobic capacity is a recommended treatment for decreasing the psychological problems commonly seen in people with COVID-19 because it has the potential for decreasing psychological problems and improving immune functions which would help counter COVID-19.
应对 COVID-19 灾害，人们出现了多种心理问题，主要是压力、焦虑和抑郁。这些心理问题在封锁期间的正常人（等待感染 COVID-19）和 COVID-19 患者（等待死亡）中都有出现。这些心理问题会对免疫功能产生不利影响，导致 COVID-19 相关疾病的严重程度和死亡率进一步增加。提高有氧运动能力是减少压力、焦虑和抑郁的有效方法之一。此外，增加有氧运动能力可通过自主调节增加免疫功能。因此，本综述旨在总结提高有氧运动能力对封锁期间或 COVID-19 感染患者中常见的心理-免疫激素的影响。
通过检索 Web of Science、Scopus、EBSCO、Medline 数据库进行综述。检索范围包括临床试验、文献综述和系统评价。搜索包括增加有氧运动能力对心理-免疫激素功能的可能影响。
本综述发现，提高有氧运动能力可以降低 COVID-19 患者常见的心理问题，并通过调节糖皮质激素、催产素、胰岛素、甲状腺激素的水平来增强免疫功能。
本综述表明，提高有氧运动能力是治疗 COVID-19 患者常见心理问题的推荐方法，因为它有降低心理问题和改善免疫功能的潜力，有助于对抗 COVID-19。
