School of Nursing.
School of Public Health.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Apr;208(4):319-328. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001121.
We conducted this updated meta-analysis to evaluate the effects of relaxation therapy for depression. We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and CINAHL for randomized controlled trials evaluating the effects of relaxation therapy in patients with depression. Finally, 14 studies were included in this meta-analysis. The efficacy of the intervention was evaluated using depression scale scores. We found that there was no significant difference between the effects of relaxation therapy and psychotherapy on decreasing self-rated depressive symptoms (standardized mean difference [SMD] = 0.19; 95% confidence interval [CI], -0.11 to 0.48). In addition, eight trials compared relaxation therapy with no treatment, waiting list, or minimal treatment and showed that the relaxation group reported lower levels of self-reported depression scores postintervention (SMD = -0.57; 95% CI, -0.98 to -0.15). Therefore, this meta-analysis showed that relaxation might reduce depressive symptoms, and the effect is not worse than that of psychotherapy.
我们进行了此次更新的荟萃分析，以评估放松疗法对抑郁症的疗效。我们检索了 PubMed、MEDLINE、PsycINFO、Cochrane 图书馆、Web of Science 和 CINAHL，以评估放松疗法对抑郁症患者疗效的随机对照试验。最终，共有 14 项研究纳入本次荟萃分析。干预效果采用抑郁量表评分进行评估。我们发现，放松疗法与心理疗法对减轻自评抑郁症状的效果无显著差异（标准化均数差 [SMD] = 0.19；95%置信区间 [CI]，-0.11 至 0.48）。此外，8 项试验比较了放松疗法与无治疗、等待名单或最低限度治疗的效果，结果显示放松组干预后自我报告的抑郁评分较低（SMD = -0.57；95% CI，-0.98 至 -0.15）。因此，本次荟萃分析表明，放松疗法可能减轻抑郁症状，且效果并不逊于心理疗法。
