ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Prenatal Yoga-Based Interventions May Improve Mental Health during Pregnancy: An Overview of Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analysis.
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- The effects of different types of prenatal exercise on neonatal outcomes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Perinatal Mood, Anxiety, and Related Disorders: Guide de pratique 2024 du Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments pour le traitement des troubles de l'humeur, des troubles anxieux et des troubles connexes périnatals.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2025Guideline
- Efficacy of mind-body exercise for perinatal depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of yoga training on postpartum prolactin and oxytocin levels in primipara women.Journal of medicine and life · 2024Trial
- Greek validation of the Pregnancy Experience Scale-Brief (PES-Brief): psychometric evaluation of prenatal stress in pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Observational
- Integrating AI predictive analytics with naturopathic and yoga-based interventions in a data-driven preventive model to improve maternal mental health and pregnancy outcomes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mind-Body Medicine in the Treatment of Depression: A Narrative Review of Efficacy, Safety and Mechanisms.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Effect of Prenatal Yoga versus Moderate-Intensity Walking on Cardiorespiratory Adaptation to Acute Psychological Stress: Insights from Non-Invasive Beat-to-Beat Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Yoga Meets Intelligent Internet of Things: Recent Challenges and Future Directions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Effect of Yoga on Anxiety, Depression, and Stress in the Course of Pregnancy Period: A Meta-analysis Study.International journal of yogaReview
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Abstract
An overview of systematic reviews with meta-analysis was developed to summarize evidence on the effectiveness of prenatal yoga-based interventions on pain, psychological symptoms, and quality of life during pregnancy. CINAHL (via EBSCOhost), Embase, PubMed, SPORTDiscus (via EBSCOhost), and the Cochrane Library were searched from inception to 15 December 2022. The intervention of interest was any prenatal yoga-based intervention. Pain, psychological symptoms, and quality of life were considered as outcome measures. The methodological quality of systematic reviews was judged using AMSTAR 2. The primary study overlap among systematic reviews was evaluated, building a citation matrix and calculating the corrected covered area (CCA). A total of ten systematic reviews, including fifteen meta-analyses of interest and comprising 32 distinct primary clinical trials, were included. Meta-analyses on pain and quality of life were not found. Most meta-analyses (93%) showed that prenatal yoga-based interventions are more effective than control interventions in reducing anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. However, the overall methodological quality of systematic reviews was judged as critically low, and primary study overlap among systematic reviews was very high (CCA = 16%). Altogether, prenatal yoga-based interventions could improve the mental health of pregnant women, although due to the important methodological flaws that were detected, future systematic reviews should improve their methodological quality before drawing firm conclusions on this topic.
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