Adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines and mental health outcomes in Chinese university students
Yongtao Yan, Xiangli Zhong, Yang Wang, Sha Liao, Xiangyu Du, Qiyuan He, Yunhan Qing, Cheng Chen, Yisong Yao, Yongyu Huang · 2026
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Yan and colleagues surveyed 836 full-time university students in China in 2025 about daily movement habits and mental health. They scored each student against the Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines, which set targets for physical activity, sitting time, and sleep. Questionnaires also measured stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, and the team compared symptom rates across students meeting none, one, two, or all three targets.
Only 23 students failed every guideline, while 294 met all three, and symptoms were widespread, with stress reported by 84.4 percent of students surveyed. Meeting all three guidelines came with much lower odds of anxiety and depressive symptoms than meeting none, at odds ratios of 0.41 for anxiety and 0.21 for depression in adjusted models. Meeting two guidelines also lowered depression odds, which the authors read as support for whole-day movement programs on campus.
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| CREATOR | Yongtao Yan, Xiangli Zhong, Yang Wang, Sha Liao, Xiangyu Du, Qiyuan He, Yunhan Qing, Cheng Chen, Yisong Yao, Yongyu Huang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |