Mindfulness-based Intervention for Postnatal Depression
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Postnatal psychopathology have adverse impact on both mothers and infants. Few postnatal women with depressive symptoms receive treatment, and pharmacological intervention has not been well accepted due to the medication side-effects. Recently, mindfulness-based interventions were found to be beneficial for symptoms in perinatal and antenatal women with depression. These non-pharmacological interventions require less resources and are more feasible for postnatal women to practice at home. To date, no randomized controlled trial has examined mindfulness-based intervention program as a treatment for women with postnatal depression. The proposed randomized controlled trial aims to examine the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention program on symptom and cognition for postnatal females with depressive symptoms.
A total of 70 postnatal women with depressive symptoms will be recruited from the psychiatric outpatient clinics in Hong Kong, and will be randomized into two groups: 1) an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention program (n=35); 2) a booklet-based psychoeducation control group (n=35). All participants will be assessed for depression, anxiety, stress, cognition, role functioning, quality of life, sleep quality and mindfulness ability at the baseline, 8 weeks, and 3 months after intervention. The intervention sessions will be held once weekly lasting 90 minutes for 8 weeks.
The investigators primarily hypothesize that participants in the mindfulness-based intervention group will improve depressive symptom after 8 weeks compared with the control group. Secondary, the mindfulness-based intervention will improve anxiety, stress, cognitive functions, sleep quality, quality of life and mindfulness ability.
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- Females aged from 18 and above
- The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale cut-off score of >=9
- At least 6 weeks, and up to one and half years after childbirth
- Cantonese-speaking Chinese
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- Severe physical illness (myocardial infarction, hypertension, fracture, spinal problems in which yoga may be contraindicated), and seizure disorders.
- Comorbid substance dependence
- Women with psychotic depression, severe eating disorders, actively suicidal or obsessive-compulsive disorders
- Known pregnancy
- A history of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, brain trauma or organic brain disease, mental retardation, or antisocial personality disorder
- Practice of mindfulness (in forms of Tai Chi, Qi gong or yoga etc.) more than twice a week during the previous three months.
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70 participants in 2 patient groups
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Jingxia Lin, PhD
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