Exercise interventions for depressive symptoms in adults with lung and digestive cancer: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Depressive symptoms significantly impair quality of life and treatment adherence in patients with lung and gastrointestinal cancers.
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This meta-analysis included eight randomized controlled trials assessing exercise interventions for depressive symptoms in adults with lung and digestive cancer.
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Post-intervention results indicated that exercise significantly reduced depressive symptoms compared to control groups, with a standardized mean difference of -0.45.
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Individually delivered programs, walking-based exercises, and moderate-frequency training showed numerically larger effects on reducing depressive symptoms.
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Further high-quality randomized trials are needed to confirm these findings and optimize exercise prescriptions for adults with lung and digestive cancer.

Frontiers In Psychiatry

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