Improving Depressive Symptoms Through Personalised Exercise and Activation

The program will consist of six 90-minute group sessions composed of four to six participants. These short intervention sessions will be distributed in one month, with a frequency of once or twice a week depending on the week of the program. Of the six sessions, two will be exercise-oriented and will include on-site practice. The remaining four sessions will include definitions of depressive symptomatology, the relationship between depression and having an active lifestyle, motivation and barriers towards exercise, and maintenance strategies.

An ad-hoc app (IDEApp) combined with a fitness tracker to register and store participants' physical activity, exercise compliance, and sleep patterns. The app will deliver motivational or awareness messages when the fitness tracker detects non-compliance with the exercise prescription, physical activity decreases, or altered sleep patterns.