Tai chi/yoga reduces prenatal depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances

Tiffany Field; Miguel Diego; Jeannette Delgado; Lissette Medina

doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2012.10.001

Tai chi/yoga reduces prenatal depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances

Tiffany Field, Miguel Diego, Jeannette Delgado, Lissette Medina

Pediatrics

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Abstract

Ninety-two prenatally depressed pregnant women were randomly assigned to a tai chi/yoga or a waitlist control group at an average of 22 weeks gestation. The tai chi/yoga group participated in a 20-min group session per week for 12 weeks. At the end of the treatment period the tai chi/yoga group had lower summary depression (CES-D) scores, as well as lower negative affect and somatic/vegetative symptoms subscale scores on the CES-D, lower anxiety (STAI) scores and lower sleep disturbances scores.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6-10
Number of pages	5
Journal	Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2012.10.001
State	Published - Feb 2013

Keywords

Anxiety
Prenatal depression
Sleep
Tai chi/yoga

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Complementary and alternative medicine

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