The Effects of Twelve-Week Bench-step Aerobics Exercise Program in Attention and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Schizophrenia

• Main Authors: CHANG,DAN-YAN, 張丹姸
• Other Authors: KUO,YU-CHI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/433977

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 運動保健研究所 === 106 === Schizophrenia is a common mental illness, the patient will come with problem about thought disorder, cognitive difficulties, behavioral and psychological symptoms. Accompanied by the duration of the disease, the cognitive of patients will being degenerate, lack of disturbance of attention, and decreased physiological. Obvious there has huge influences in their activities of daily living, it is not only a life-long struggle for the patients themselves but also a burden for their families and societies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of twelve-week bench-step aerobics exercise program in attention and cardiorespiratory fitness in schizophrenia. In the northern part of Taiwan, 30 patients with schizophrenia disorder, the residents of a recovery home, using random sampling, are purposefully assigned into experimental group(EXP) and the placebo group(PLA). Two groups are accepted three times testing (Mini-Mental State Examination、Barthel Index、Clinical Global Impression-Severity、6-minute walking test、Beck Depression Inventory Ⅱ, and near-infrared spectroscopy、Symbol Digit Modalities Test、physical activity)。Experimental group perform 12-weeks bench-step aerobics exercise, twice per week, 30 minutes each time, 96 every minute of step speed, 24 Up and down steps per one minute, control group remain daily life activities. The measured data analyzed by Independent-Sample T Test、chi-square test and two-way ANOVA (α=0.05). The results showed that after 12-weeks bench-step aerobics exercise, in EXP the channel 4 O2Ｈb were significantly reduced than control group (p < .05). Symbol Digit Modalities Test, 6-minute walking test and Beck Depression Inventory Ⅱ score showed no significant changes in 2 groups. In conclusion, 12-weeks bench-step aerobics exercise showed improvements in cerebral blood flow. According to our finding, we suggest 12-weeks bench-step aerobics exercise would be effective for schizophrenia disease.