A 2023 PLOS ONE meta-analysis found that aerobic exercise interventions—including dance, swimming, cycling, walking, running, and other sports—were effective for treating and preventing postpartum depression, except for yoga, which showed no significant improvement compared with a control group.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the primary PLOS ONE study (Xu et al., 2023) and corroborated by independent secondary sources summarizing the same findings. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Does Exercise Reduce the Risk of Postpartum Depression? (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0287650 (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686497/ (corroboration)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13121419 (corroboration)