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- The review aimed to analyze how effective exercise and mind-body exercises are for individuals with feeding and eating disorders, focusing on their impact on harmful exercise habits, mental health, and quality of life.
- Twelve studies were included, but none specifically targeted athletes or emphasized regular physical activity as an intervention; the results indicated that exercise didn't significantly improve depression, eating behaviors, or emotional regulation.
- The overall evidence was deemed low to very low quality, highlighting the need for more detailed reporting and further research in this area to draw clearer conclusions.
Article Abstract
Purpose: To develop a systematic review with meta-analysis to summarize the effectiveness of exercise, regular physical activity, and mind-body exercise on harmful exercise habits, psychological factors, and quality of life in people clinically diagnosed with feeding and eating disorders.
Material And Methods: Randomized clinical trials and pilot randomized clinical trials were considered.
Results: Twelve studies were included. No studies evaluated athletes. No studies examined regular physical activity as the targeted intervention. Quality of life could not be meta-analyzed. Overall, meta-analyses showed that exercise or mind-body exercise was not more effective than controls in reducing depression symptoms, harmful exercise habits, eating behaviors, or emotional regulation skills. However, important methodological and clinical issues were detected in the included studies. This affected the certainty of evidence of the meta-analyzed outcomes which ranged from low to very low. No studies reported in sufficient detail their interventions to be replicated.
Conclusions: Overall, exercise and mind-body exercise may be ineffective in improving meta-analyzed outcomes. However, the certainty of evidence ranged from low to very low and the body of knowledge in this field needs to be increased to reach robust conclusions.
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