Maulde Rovero, Martin Preisig, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Marie-Pierre F Strippoli, Peter Vollenweider, Julien Vaucher, Alexandre Berney, Kathleen R Merikangas, Caroline L Vandeleur, Jennifer Glaus
BACKGROUND: Lack of physical activity (PA) and high sedentary behavior (SB) may enhance mental health problems, including depression, and are associated with increased mortality. Aside from a large body of research on major depressive disorder (MDD) assessed as an entity and either PA or SB, few studies have examined associations among subtypes of MDD and both PA and SB simultaneously derived from wrist-worn accelerometers. Accordingly, our aim was to explore the associations among MDD subtypes (atypical, melancholic, combined atypical-melancholic and unspecified) and four actigraphy-derived behaviors combining the levels of PA and SB...
December 5, 2023: Comprehensive Psychiatry