Moderate physical activity is associated with lower depression, anxiety and stress in health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fabiola Martín-Del-CampoJorge L Ramírez-PinedaRosa M Ávila-CornejoSophia B Gutiérrez-CasillasArtemio Sánchez-SorianoAlfonso M Cueto Manzano

Published in: Journal of psychosomatic research (2023)

Depression, stress, and particularly anxiety, increased in health-care workers from the beginning to the COVID-19 pandemic peak, and were predicted by the presence of the corresponding baseline mental alterations, and in the case of anxiety and stress, by the lower frequency of moderate PA.

Keyphrases

sleep quality
physical activity
depressive symptoms
high intensity
stress induced
mental health
body mass index
heat stress