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Record W4407793510 · doi:10.1177/10497315251316844

Efficacy of a Combined Aerobic Exercise and Mindfulness Intervention on Depressive Symptoms: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

2025· article· en· W4407793510 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch on Social Work Practice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
KeywordsMindfulnessRandomized controlled trialAerobic exercisePhysical therapyIntervention (counseling)PsychologyDepressive symptomsClinical psychologyMedicinePsychotherapistPsychiatryAnxietyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Purpose: The current study aimed to preliminarily examine the effectiveness and acceptability of a combined exercise + mindfulness intervention on depressive symptoms among healthy Chinese university students (study 1) and those with subthreshold depression (study 2). Methods: Two 2 (intervention group vs. control group) × 2 (pretest vs. posttest) randomized controlled trials were conducted in healthy students without subthreshold depression and students with subthreshold depression, respectively. Description analysis, linear mixed-effects models, and qualitative analysis were used in both studies. Results: Results of both studies showed that the combined intervention was acceptable and effective in preventing and reducing depressive symptoms, with small effect sizes for healthy students ( d = −0.47) and large effect sizes for subthreshold depression students ( d = −1.51), respectively. Conclusions: The aerobic exercise plus mindfulness intervention was evidenced to be a preventive and therapeutic measure of depressive symptoms among university students.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.279
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.457
Teacher spread0.386 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it