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Meta-analysis: aerobic exercise for the treatment of anxiety disorders

Christine A Bartley1, Madeleine Hay, Michael H Bloch

  • 1Connecticut Mental Health Center, United States.

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
|May 7, 2013
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
ACQAgoraphobia Cognitions QuestionnaireAnxiety/anxiety disordersCBTCGICICPRSClinical Global Impression ScaleCognitive Behavioral TherapyComprehensive Psychopathological Rating ScaleConfidence IntervalDASSDSMDepression Anxiety Stress ScaleDiagnostic Statistical ManualEmpirically supported treatmentsExerciseGADGAD/generalized anxiety disorderGeneralized Anxiety DisorderHAM-AHamilton Anxiety Rating ScaleLSAS-SRLiebowitz Social Anxiety Scale-Self ReportMBSRMindfulness–Based Stress ReductionP&APARSPDPanic & Agoraphobia ScalePanic DisorderPhobic Avoidance Rating ScaleSMDSTAI-TraitStandardized Mean DifferenceState-Trait Anxiety InventoryTreatment

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