Payame Noor University QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 2322-1283 8 30 2019 08 23 A Meta-Analysis of Exercise Therapy on Reducing Depression Among Older Adults in Iran A Meta-Analysis of Exercise Therapy on Reducing Depression Among Older Adults in Iran 69 80 6037 10.30473/hpj.2019.40010.3982 FA Mohammad Ghasemi Pirbalouti Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran. Arghavan Shariat PhD student, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran. Ahmad Ghazanfari Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran. Journal Article 2018 07 18 Objective: Aging is a natural, dynamic and developing process. With attention to the available issues in this period of life, such as getting retired, feeling lonely and exclusion, older adults are prone to crisis and other problems such as decreasing in life expectancy, amount of physical activity and finally depression. So, it seems necessary to use from different methods to decrease or prevention of this issues in this of life. With getting older psychological parameters will be affected. So, using non-pharmacological treatments such as exercise therapy, effective on physical and psychological performance, is suggested to control of those issued in this part of life. Method: To do this research, articles related to the effect of exercise on depression of older adults published between 2012-2017, available in sid.ir, magiran, and Google Scholar, were used. Keywords for this research were including physical activity, depression, and older adults. Finally, six researches were selected and meta-analysis was done based on them. The tool used in this research was meta analysis’ check- list. Findings: The amount of effect size was d=0.64, that is statistically significant )P Objective: Aging is a natural, dynamic and developing process. With attention to the available issues in this period of life, such as getting retired, feeling lonely and exclusion, older adults are prone to crisis and other problems such as decreasing in life expectancy, amount of physical activity and finally depression. So, it seems necessary to use from different methods to decrease or prevention of this issues in this of life. With getting older psychological parameters will be affected. So, using non-pharmacological treatments such as exercise therapy, effective on physical and psychological performance, is suggested to control of those issued in this part of life. Method: To do this research, articles related to the effect of exercise on depression of older adults published between 2012-2017, available in sid.ir, magiran, and Google Scholar, were used. Keywords for this research were including physical activity, depression, and older adults. Finally, six researches were selected and meta-analysis was done based on them. The tool used in this research was meta analysis’ check- list. Findings: The amount of effect size was d=0.64, that is statistically significant )P https://hpj.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_6037_5b6dfd40477b399da1949e75f3dd59f9.pdf