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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of "Mindful Moms": A Mindful Physical Activity Intervention for Pregnant Women with Depression.
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- The effectiveness of mindfulness yoga on patients with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Pooled it
- Co-designing and evaluating a prenatal yoga intervention for ethnic minority women: a feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Scoping review of non-pharmacological or self-management interventions for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders tested with Hispanic and Latina women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- What can the psychoneuroimmunology of yoga teach us about depression's psychopathology?Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Study protocol for the Mindful Moms Study: A randomized controlled trial evaluating a mindful movement intervention for marginalized pregnant people experiencing depression.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of yoga to improve maternal mental health and immune function during the COVID-19 crisis (Yoga-MFrontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The role of psychological self-care on worry of vaccination against COVID-19 in Iranian pregnant women: A cross-sectional study.Health science reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundNonpharmacological and accessible therapies that engage individuals in self-management are needed to address depressive symptoms in pregnancy. The 12-week "Mindful Moms" intervention was designed to empower pregnant women with depressive symptomatology to create personal goals and engage in mindful physical activity using prenatal yoga.
objectivesThis longitudinal pilot study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of the "Mindful Moms" intervention in pregnant women with depressive symptoms.
methodsWe evaluated enrollment and retention data (feasibility) and conducted semistructured interviews (acceptability). We evaluated the intervention's effects over time on participants' depressive symptoms, anxiety, perceived stress, self-efficacy, and maternal-child attachment, and we compared findings to an archival comparison group, also assessed longitudinally.
resultsEnrollment and retention rates and positive feedback from participants support the intervention's acceptability and feasibility. "Mindful Moms" participants experienced decreases in depressive symptoms, perceived stress, anxiety, ruminations, and maternal-child attachment and no change in physical activity self-efficacy from baseline to postintervention. Comparisons of the "Mindful Moms" intervention to the comparison groups over time indicated differences in depressive symptoms between all groups and a trend in differences in perceived stress. DISCUSSION: Results support the feasibility and acceptability of "Mindful Moms" for pregnant women with depressive symptoms and suggest that further research is warranted to evaluate this intervention for reducing depressive and related symptoms. Lack of a concurrent control group, with equivalent attention from study staff, and no randomization limit the generalizability of this study; yet, these preliminary findings support future large-scale randomized controlled trials to further evaluate this promising intervention.
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