title: [Prevalence of performing and prescribing physical exercise in patients diagnosed with anxiety and depression].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the prevalence of physical exercise practice in patients diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional, observational study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sabugo and la Magdalena primary care centers in Avilés.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients aged 18 to 75 years diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression, consumers of psychoactive drugs in the three months previous to the realization of the study. We selected 376 patients by simple random sampling stratified by health center, making them a telephone survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  Age, sex, physical exercise realization, type and duration of exercise, diagnosis of anxiety and/or depression, exercise prescription, prescriber health personnel and use of psychotropic medication.
  
  
  RESULTS
  294 participants (78.19% of selected) with a mean age of 55.33 years (55.32±12.53 SD) and 78.2% were female. 60.9% were diagnosed with anxiety, 59.5% with depression and 20.4% both diagnoses. 62.9% used antidepressants, benzodiazepines 76.9% and 39.79% both treatments. 58.5% (95%CI: 52.70-64.31) performed exercise of which 44.77% did it 3-5 times/week. The mean duration was 1.24h each time (95%CI: 0.53-1.96). The physical exercise was prescribed to the 59.18% (95%CI: 53.39-64.97); 90.23% by the family physician, 63.22% primary care nurse, 17.24% psychiatrist and 5.17% psychologist. The adherence to the prescription was 59.77% (95%CI: 52.20-67.34).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The percentage of anxious and/or depressed patients who practiced exercise is similar to the general population but should be higher. The exercise prescription by health personnel is insufficient.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud de Sabugo, Avilés, España. Electronic address: bibi_im@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Bibiana
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Iglesias Martínez
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud de la Magdalena, Avilés, España.
authors.forename: Inés
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Olaya Velázquez
authors.affiliation: Unidad Docente Multiprofesional de Atención Familiar y Comunitaria de Asturias, La Fresneda, España.
authors.forename: María José
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gómez Castro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Ansiedad; Anxiety; Depresión; Depression; Ejercicio físico; Physical exercise