O exercício físico aeróbio como tratamento não farmacológico dos sintomas da ansiedade em adolescentes

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Abstract - Objective: verify the main causes, effects that lead adolescents to develop an anxiety disorder and how the non-pharmacological treatment through aerobic exercise can mitigate and/or prevent these mental disorders. Method: Bibliographic search in the line of Sports and Health Sciences. The National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Google Scholar were used as a source of electronic searches. Results: It was identified that anxiety in adolescents has as prevalence multifactorial causes, that is, internal and environmental factors that psychologically and physically influence the lives of these subjects. Conclusions:. Aerobic exercise has been shown to be effective as a non-pharmacological treatment, significantly reducing anxiety among healthy adolescent individuals and people with physical/mental illness.