Effects of Music Aerobic Exercise on Depression and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels in Community Dwelling Women

Table 4

Pre- and posttest depression scores in MAE and comparison groups.

	MAE group ()				Comparison group ()
Variables	Pretest		Posttest		Pretest		Posttest
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Sadness	0.17	0.495	0.02	0.156	0.08	0.272	0.12	0.326	2.51	0.12
Pessimism	0.17	0.381	0.05	0.218	0.23	0.514	0.27	0.533	1.99	0.16
Past failure	0.17	0.495	0.10	0.374	0.08	0.272	0.23	0.652	3.30	0.07
Loss of pleasure	0.17	0.495	0.15	0.422	0.15	0.368	0.27	0.533	0.73	0.396
Guilty feelings	0.20	0.401	0.10	0.300	0.12	0.326	0.08	0.272	0.25	0.62
Punishment feelings	0.10	0.300	0.10	0.300	0.04	0.200	0.12	0.326	0.65	0.42
Self-dislike	0.17	0.587	0.05	0.218	0.08	0.277	0.23	0.652	3.63	0.06
Self-criticalness	0.17	0.442	0.12	0.331	0.12	0.332	0.15	0.464	0.61	0.44
Suicide thoughts	0.13	0.335	0.05	0.218	0.12	0.440	0.08	0.272	0.10	0.75
Crying	0.29	0.716	0.07	0.264	0.08	0.272	0.23	0.710	4.74	0.03
Agitation	0.15	0.422	0.12	0.331	0.27	0.452	0.35	0.846	0.56	0.46
Loss of interest	0.17	0.442	0.15	0.358	0.15	0.368	0.19	0.402	0.23	0.64
Indecisiveness	0.22	0.475	0.10	0.300	0.08	0.272	0.12	0.326	1.99	0.16
Worthlessness	0.27	0.633	0.10	0.300	0.12	0.326	0.23	0.710	3.46	0.07
Loss of energy	0.46	0.674	0.34	0.480	0.38	0.496	0.50	0.583	1.88	0.18
Changes in sleeping pattern	0.44	0.673	0.37	0.536	0.38	0.637	0.38	0.752	0.12	0.73
Irritability	0.22	0.475	0.12	0.331	0.19	0.491	0.19	0.491	0.85	0.36
Changes in appetite	0.37	0.581	0.07	0.264	0.27	0.452	0.38	0.571	8.15	0.006
Concentration difficulty	0.17	0.381	0.17	0.381	0.31	0.471	0.31	0.471	0.00	1.00
Fatigue	0.37	0.488	0.27	0.449	0.38	0.496	0.64	0.638	6.86	0.011
Loss of interest in sex	0.95	0.944	0.78	1.061	0.92	1.060	0.96	1.172	0.28	0.60

Groups compared with mixed-design analysis of variance model.