Lindsay Bottoms, Montserrat Prat Pons, Naomi A Fineberg, Luca Pellegrini, Oliver Fox, David Wellsted, Lynne M Drummond, Jemma Reid, David S Baldwin, Ruihua Hou, Samuel Chamberlain, Nick Sireau, Dominique Grohmann, Keith R Laws
OBJECTIVE: This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the efficacy of exercise in reducing OCD symptoms. METHODS: We searched PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, Scopus and grey literature until March 2022. The study was preregistered at Prospero (CRD42021283931). We included randomised controlled and pre-post trials assessing physical activity as an intervention for OCD. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane ROBINS-I tool and the RoB2 tool...
December 21, 2022: International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice