Effects of exercise training on mental disorders in male cured addicts.

The purpose of present study was to investigate the effects of exercise training on mental disorders in male cured addicts. Therefore, 50 males who addicted to Crystal Methamphetamine were voluntarily participated in a pretestposttest randomized-groups design. The experimental group participated in selected exercise training for 8 weeks. Mental health of two groups was measured in pretest and posttest using symptoms checklist of mental disorders (SCL90- R). Results of 2(group)*2(test) MANOVA with repeated measures of last factor in p<.05 indicated that exercise led to significant decreases in somatization, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism, but it had not significant effects on obsessive-compulsive, hostility, and phobic anxiety. Thus, 8 weeks of exercise training, as an effective non-drug way, can be utilized to decrease mental disorders in male cured addicts.