Background: Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions are increasingly studied as a potential treatment for a variety of mental conditions. Objective: To assess the effects of mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions on psychotic symptoms and hospitalization in patients with psych...

Overweight and obesity increase risk for chronic disease including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Therefore, weight loss is an important component of cancer and chronic disease prevention efforts [1]. Mindfulness has received a lot of attention in recent years as a strategy for man...

Background Recently, there has been an increased interest in studying the effects of mindfulness-based interventions for people with psychological and physical problems. However, the mechanisms of action in these interventions that lead to beneficial physical and psychological outcomes have yet ...

Objective We examined the effects of exercise on depression in older adults living in nursing homes and explored the moderator effects of participants, methods, and intervention characteristics. Methods We searched 8 databases from inception to January 2020 without date restrictions. We retrieved...

INTRODUCTION: Previous randomized controlled trials have led to conflicting findings regarding the effects of exercise on depressive symptoms in adults with arthritis and other rheumatic conditions (AORC). The purpose of this study was to use the meta-analytic approach to resolve these discrepanc...

OBJECTIVE: C-reactive protein (CRP), inflammatory cytokines, and adipokines contribute to atherosclerosis, insulin resistance, and development of late-onset complication in patients with type 2 diabetes. We performed a systematic review to assess effects of exercise interventions on inflammatory ...

Background: In pediatric populations, the use of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) as a marker of cardiovascular risk has increased. However, previous studies examining the effects of exercise training on arterial structure and function in obese children and adolescents have shown inconsistent...

Objective To gain insight on how exercise affects the outcomes of prostate cancer patientstreated with androgen deprivation therapy, specifically cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and quality of life(QoL).Methods Systematic searches for randomized clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of exerc...

Background: Physical activity and exercise has been identified as a curative intervention to improve physical and mental health, and even cancer prognosis, in breast cancer survivors. Though there have been many randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that attempted to prove the effect of exercise on c...

Background: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is the most common neurological and clinically relevant side effect of many commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. Moreover, little effort has been done to investigate the potentially beneficial effects of specific exercises to counter...