Main analysis drop out all studies | 10 | 40.34 | 23.31 to 60.07 | | 80% |
Intervention type | | | | 0.18 | |
Aerobic | 5 | 53.77 | 27.29 to 78.28 | | 78% |
Aerobic+resistance training | 3 | 40.57 | 12.68 to 76.23 | | 85% |
Others | 2 | 13.03 | 2.26 to 49.30 | | 0% |
Exercise sessions per week | | | | 0.31 | |
1 | 1 | 7.0% | 0.33% to 64.37 | | 0% |
3 | 5 | 38.70 | 15.90 to 67.97 | | 82% |
≥5 | 4 | 51.70 | 21.87 to 80.37 | | 84% |
Meta-regression analyses | Number of studies | β | 95% CI | p Value | R2 |
Mean age | 9 | 0.0766 | −0.0218 to 0.175 | 0.127 | 0 |
Percentage of males | 8 | 0.0622 | 0.0335 to 0.0908 | <0.0001 | 0.82 |
Illness duration | 4 | 0.1193 | −0.0926 to 0.3313 | 0.2698 | 0.13 |
Duration of study | 9 | 0.0121 | −0.0421 to 0.0663 | 0.6617 | 0 |
Length of exercise sessions | 10 | −0.0368 | −0.0871 to 0.0136 | 0.1522 | 0 |