Citation

Uebelacker LA, Battle CL, Sutton KA, Magee SR, Miller IW. Arch. Women Ment. Health 2015; 19(3): 543-547.

Affiliation

Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. Ivan_Miller@brown.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00737-015-0571-7

PMID

26385456

Abstract

We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing a prenatal yoga intervention to perinatal-focused health education in pregnant women with depression.

FINDINGS document acceptability and feasibility of the yoga intervention: no yoga-related injuries were observed, instructors showed fidelity to the yoga manual, and women rated interventions as acceptable. Although improvements in depression were not statistically different between groups, they favored yoga. This study provides support for a larger scale RCT examining prenatal yoga to improve mood during pregnancy.

Language: en