The Effect of Physical Activity on Fitness and Cognition of Schizophrenia Patients

Abstract

Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects several areas of individual functioning, such as thinking, emotions, behaviour, and daily activities. Cognitive function is the ability to recognise or know an object, state, or situation that is associated with a person's learning experience and intelligence capacity. People with lower cognitive function are more likely to experience psychosis than those with more significant cognitive function.
Objective: To determine whether there is an effect of physical activity on the fitness and cognition ofschizophreniapatients.
Methods: Research design for a controlled experiment consisting of a pretest with just one group All 174 participants were inpatients at Dr. RM Soedjarwadi Mental Hospital in Central Java Province, and they were all diagnosed with schizophrenia. Twenty case groups and twenty control groups were selected using a purposive sampling method. A questionnaire was employed as the data collection tool for this study. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Results: Before 35% and after 75% of the intervention, the fitness levels of individuals with schizophrenia were satisfactory. Both pre- and post-test fitness levels in the control group were satisfactory. Before 35% and after 50% of the intervention group, cognitive ability was poor in the control group, before weight, it was 50%, and after weight, it was 50%

Conclusion:  There is an effect of physical activity on fitness and cognition in the intervention group, and the control group has no effect.