title: The effects of aerobic exercise training on psychosocial aspects of men with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to examine the effects of aerobic exercise training on psychosocial aspects (mental health, the aspects of physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social functioning, and depression) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
  
  
  METHODS
  53 men who had type 2 diabetes mellitus for a mean duration of the disease for 3±5 years were selected purposely and classified randomly into experimental (27 patients) and a control group (26 patients). Patients in the experimental group did aerobic exercise training three times a week for eight weeks. The exercise included an aerobic activity for 45 to 60 minutes during which the patients' heart rates were maintained at 60-70 percent of heart rate reserve on ergo meter bikes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The eight-week aerobic exercise training had significant effects on mental health (p = 0.002), subscales of physical symptoms (p = 0.006), and anxiety and insomnia (p = 0.001). It had no significant effects on subscales related to disorder of social functioning (p = 0.117) and depression (p = 0.657).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Aerobic exercise training can be considered as an appropriate program for improving the health of the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and it also can improve their mental health.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Courses, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. sardarma@mums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sardar
authors.forename: Vahdat
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Boghrabadi
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sohrabi
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aminzadeh
authors.forename: Mehrdad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jalalian
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome