upper-body resistance, aerobic exercise and stretching (40-60 minutes); full-body resistance, aerobic exercise and stretching (40-60 minutes)(R+CV). Findings: The current indicates that an acute bout of exercise, regardless of the intervention, resulted in increased positive wellbeing for previously sedentary Vietnam Veterans, but these results were not statistically significant (p>0.05). The WBVT and R+CV groups both reporting improvements across all areas of the SEES. Unmonitored unsupervised physical activity Authors, year and Study design Quality Population including no. of Intervention Primary outcome measures country participants Bosch et al. (2017), Cohort Good Veterans with PTSD (n = 195) Self-report surveys taken PTSD checklist military (PCL-M), – USA at baseline and 12 month The Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index follow up to evaluate (PSQI), The Michigan Alcohol levels of exercise Screening Test (MAST) (vigorous, moderate or light) and sleep quality. Findings: of engagement in exercise and subsequent sleep quality and PTSD symptoms one year later among deployed veterans, all of whom reported clinically significant or subthreshold levels of PTSD, showed, via multiple regression analyses that exercise improved sleep quality (p<0.05). Results from the present study did not find a significant association between level of engagement in exercise at baseline and PTSD symptoms and improved sleep quality at one-year follow-up (p=0.57). Authors, year and design Quality Population including no. of Intervention Primary outcome measures country participants
upper-body resistance, aerobic exercise and stretching (40-60 minutes); full-body resistance, aerobic exercise and stretching (40-60 minutes)(R+CV). Findings: The current indicates that an acute bout of exercise, regardless of the intervention, resulted in increased positive wellbeing for previously sedentary Vietnam Veterans, but these results were not statistically significant (p>0.05). The WBVT and R+CV groups both reporting improvements across all areas of the SEES. Unmonitored unsupervised physical activity Authors, year and country Study design Quality Population including no. of participants Intervention Primary outcome measures Bosch et al. (2017), USA Cohort Good Veterans with PTSD (n = 195) Self-report surveys taken at baseline and 12 month follow up to evaluate levels of exercise (vigorous, moderate or light) and sleep quality. PTSD checklist – military (PCL-M), The Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), The Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST) Findings: of engagement in exercise and subsequent sleep quality and PTSD symptoms one year later among deployed veterans, all of whom reported clinically significant or subthreshold levels of PTSD, showed, via multiple regression analyses that exercise improved sleep quality (p<0.05). Results from the present study did not find a significant association between level of engagement in exercise at baseline and PTSD symptoms and improved sleep quality at one-year follow-up (p=0.57). Authors, year and country design Quality Population including no. of participants Intervention Primary outcome measures
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