Percentage (frequency) of total reviewed studies that showed beneficial effects of exercise interventions depending on the intensity of the intervention
| Reported or likely intensity of the intervention | Depression symptoms in people with depression | Depression symptoms in people with a diagnosis other than depression | Anxiety symptoms in people with anxiety | Anxiety symptoms in people with a diagnosis other than anxiety | Eating disorder symptoms | Psychosis/schizophrenia symptoms |
| Vigorous-intensity intervention | 100% (n=2 out of 3)44 45 | 0% (n=0 out of 1) | 0% (n=0 out of 1) | None identified | None identified | None identified |
| Moderate-to-vigorous-intensity intervention | 100% (n=3 out of 3)48 49 80 | 100% (n=1 out of 1)53 | None identified | None identified | 33% (n=1 out of 3)56 | 0% (n=0 out of 1) |
| Moderate-intensity intervention | 100% (n=3 out of 3)43–45 | None identified | None identified | None identified | None identified | 100% (n=1 out of 1 pre-post analysis only)58 |
| Light-to-moderate-intensity intervention | 100% (n=2 out of 2)3 46 | 0% (n=0 out of 1) | None identified | 0% (n=0 out of 1) | 100% (n=1 out of 1)54 | None Identified |
| Light-intensity intervention | None identified | None identified | 50% (n=1 out of 2)55 | None identified | None identified | None identified |
| Variable intensity | None identified | None identified | 0% (n=0 out of 1) | None identified | None identified | None identified |
| Unspecified intensity | None identified | None identified | None identified | None identified | None identified | 100% (n=1 out of 1)42 |