Adults with epilepsy completed self‐report measures of exercise participation, barriers to
exercise, stressful life experience, depression, and general psycho‐social adjustment (n=
133) as part of routine outpatient visits. Descriptive statistics showed lower levels of
depression among patients who exercised regularly. Structural equation analyses confirmed
the fit of a path model that included significant direct effects of exercise and stressful life
experience on depression. These effects were independent of each other, and independent …