Breathing-focused Yoga as Augmentation for Unipolar and Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial: Le yoga axe sur la respiration comme traitement d'appoint pour la depression unipolaire et bipolaire: Un essai randomise controle.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with depression frequently experience persistent residual symptoms even with optimal interventions. These patients often use complementary treatments, including yoga, as a preferred alternative or adjunctive treatment. There is evidence for the benefit of yoga for depression, but this has not been rigorously evaluated, particularly in bipolar depression. We aimed to determine the feasibility and benefit of manualized breathing-focused yoga in comparison to psychoeducation as augmentation to pharmacotherapy for improving residual symptoms of depression in unipolar and bipolar patients.

Methods

Using a randomized single-blind crossover design, 72 outpatients with unipolar or bipolar depression were augmented with the two 8-week interventions at separate time

SUBMITTER: Ravindran AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7918867 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature