Die Wirksamkeit eines 6-wöchigen hochfrequenten, standardisierten Sportprogramms auf die Erkrankungsschwere in drei Gruppen psychiatrischer Störungen
von Lennart Hüller
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:2025-04-14
Erschienen:2025-04-03
Betreuer:Prof. Dr. Dirk Wedekind
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Dirk Wedekind
Gutachter:PD Dr. Thomas Ellrott
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Zusammenfassung
Englisch
Depression, addiction syndromes and schizophrenia are three of the most common severe psychiatric disorders. For all three disorders, there are established treatment regimes and guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. The high prevalence rates lead to a high social burden of disease. Further research into better and additive therapies such as exercise and sports therapy is necessary to supplement the currently available literature. Particularly with regards to symptoms of depression, but also for other psychiatric disorders, sports therapies have proven to be effective. In the SIWAS study on which this dissertation is based, full and part-time inpatients in psychiatric wards of the University Medical Centre Göttingen from the three disease groups unipolar depression, dependency syndrome and schizophrenia took part in a six-weeks exercise program in addition to treatment as usual. Five days a week, a standardised one-hour, mainly endurance-oriented program was offered. Data collected during the study were analysed to determine possible effectiveness. The SIWAS study suffers the fate of many other studies conducted to date in the field of exercise and sports therapy, as it was rather small, monocentric, non-randomised and uncontrolled. This is one reason why no specific criteria for the design of a successful sports intervention can be derived from its results. Nevertheless, the results of the study are largely in line with previous findings on exercise and sports therapy for psychiatric disorders. They show potential positive effects of the sports intervention on the entire group of participants on the state of illness and general functional ability within the first few weeks after the start of therapy. This is an indication that sports therapy can be supportive in the early treatment of psychiatric disorders especially before the effects of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy unfold. In particular, the early implementation of sports therapy for acute inpatients should be further researched due to this potentially bridging effect. It is possible that the effect of exercise can initially contribute to improve the patient's condition while psychotropic drugs and psychotherapy have not yet fully developed their effect. In order to test this and other hypotheses high-quality, large-scale and multi-centre studies should be conducted on sports therapy for psychiatric disorders. This could ensure that the promising effects of exercise and sports therapy can be assessed adequately.
Keywords: exercise therapy; aerobic exercise; depression; addiction; schizophrenia
