Empowered and engaged : Group exercise for adolescent depression – perspectives from adolescents, parents and healthcare professionals
Mortazavi, Rebecca LU
; Grudin, Rebecca
; Jarbin, Håkan
LU
and Larsson, Ingrid
LU
(2024)
In SAGE Open Medicine
12.
- Abstract
Objectives: Depression is increasing and is a leading cause of disease burden among adolescents. Available evidence-based treatments with medication or psychotherapy have modest effects. Aerobic exercise is a hopeful alternative as an augmenter or a stand-alone treatment. Qualitative studies have shown that participants in group exercise for adolescent depression experienced improved mood and a sense of achievement, commitment and empowerment. This study aimed to explore not only adolescents’ but also parents’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences of a group exercise intervention for adolescents with depression. Methods: Nine adolescents who had participated in a group aerobic exercise intervention for 12 weeks, eight parents and... (More)
Objectives: Depression is increasing and is a leading cause of disease burden among adolescents. Available evidence-based treatments with medication or psychotherapy have modest effects. Aerobic exercise is a hopeful alternative as an augmenter or a stand-alone treatment. Qualitative studies have shown that participants in group exercise for adolescent depression experienced improved mood and a sense of achievement, commitment and empowerment. This study aimed to explore not only adolescents’ but also parents’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences of a group exercise intervention for adolescents with depression. Methods: Nine adolescents who had participated in a group aerobic exercise intervention for 12 weeks, eight parents and two healthcare professionals were interviewed. We used a latent qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach that resulted in nine sub-categories, three categories and an overarching theme. Results: The experiences of a group exercise intervention for adolescents with depression were expressed in the overarching theme ‘Group exercise for adolescent depression promotes empowerment and engagement in everyday life’, based on three categories: exercise alleviates depressive symptoms, exercise contributes to balance in life and exercise promotes self-esteem. However, there was variation in our results, in that not all participants experienced improvements from exercising. Adolescents described more varied experiences, while parents and healthcare professionals mainly expressed positive views. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that group exercise for adolescent depression promotes empowerment and engagement in everyday life, according to adolescents, and more clearly so according to parents and healthcare professionals.
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- Mortazavi, Rebecca
LU
; Grudin, Rebecca
; Jarbin, Håkan
LU
and Larsson, Ingrid
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adolescents, aerobic, depression, exercise, multiple perspectives, qualitative research
- in
- SAGE Open Medicine
- volume
- 12
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- pmid:38313468
- scopus:85183699523
- ISSN
- 2050-3121
- DOI
- 10.1177/20503121231225340
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 72b9e1fb-1be2-4daf-8869-2a659310cd73
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-27 14:38:22
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- 2024-04-12 16:23:55
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