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Women’s experiences of exercise as a treatment for their postnatal depression: A nested qualitative study
journal contribution
posted on 2018-03-13, 15:15 authored by Ruth V. Pritchett, Kate Jolly, Amanda DaleyAmanda Daley, Katrina M. Turner, Caroline Bradbury-JonesWomen with postnatal depression are often reluctant to take medication postnatally and access to psychological therapies is limited. Exercise offers a freely available treatment option but depressed mothers’ experience of exercise has not been investigated. We conducted a qualitative study nested within a randomised trial of an exercise intervention for women with postnatal depression. Women described deterioration in their sense of identity postnatally and through experiencing depression and described the positive impact exercise had on their sense of self. Views of exercise as treatment for postnatal depression ranged from doubts about its practicality to positive comparisons with other traditional treatments and to improved recovery.
Funding
This article presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research and the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands. R.P. is funded and K.J. part-funded by the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Journal of Health PsychologyVolume
25Issue
5Pages
684-691Citation
PRITCHETT, R. ... et al, 2017. Women’s experiences of exercise as a treatment for their postnatal depression: A nested qualitative study. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(5), pp. 684-691.Publisher
SAGE © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2017-09-07Copyright date
2020Notes
PRITCHETT, R. ... et al. Women’s experiences of exercise as a treatment for their postnatal depression: A nested qualitative study. Journal of Health Psychology, doi:10.1177/1359105317726590. Copyright © 2017 (The Authors). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.ISSN
1359-1053eISSN
1461-7277Publisher version
Language
- en