NCT04923698

Effect of Yoga on Postpartum Depression

Yoga on Postpartum Depression

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: —
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of yoga on postpartum depression. Subjects: Forty primipara women with postpartum depression (PPD) selected randomly from Kasr El Ainy University Hospital in Cairo complaining of postpartum depression at least one month after childbirth shared in this study.

Detailed description

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of yoga on postpartum depression. Subjects: Forty primipara women with postpartum depression (PPD) selected randomly from Kasr El Ainy University Hospital in Cairo complaining of postpartum depression at least one month after childbirth shared in this study. Group A (Control group): It consisted of 20 women and treated by antidepressant drugs only for 12 weeks. Group B (Study group): It consisted of 20 women and treated by the same antidepressant drugs as in group A and yoga program, 50 minutes daily,7 days per week for 12 weeks (Total 84 sessions).

Conditions

• Yoga

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	yoga training	All women in group B were treated by the same antidepressant drugs as in group A and yoga program, 50 minutes daily, 7 days per week for 12 weeks (Total 84 sessions).

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-24
• Primary completion: 2020-03-30
• Completion: 2020-03-30
• First posted: 2021-06-11
• Last updated: 2021-06-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt