Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months
Michael Babyak, PhD,
James A. Blumenthal, PhD,
Steve Herman, PhD,
Parinda Khatri, PhD,
Murali Doraiswamy, MD,
Kathleen Moore, PhD,
W. Edward Craighead, PhD,
Teri T. Baldewicz, PhD and
K. Ranga Krishnan, MD
From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Fig. 1 Clinical status at 10 months (6 months after treatment) among patients who were remitted (N = 83) after 4 months of treatment in Exercise (N = 25), Medication (N = 29), and Combination (N = 29) groups. Compared with participants in the other conditions, those in the Exercise condition were more likely to be partially or fully recovered and were less likely to have relapsed.