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September 12, 2025Open Access

Lifestyle Interventions for Depression: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (Preprint)

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XGXandra Gonzalez-GarciaAGAurora García-RoblesPGPatricia García‐Pazo

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Overview

Umbrella review assesses lifestyle interventions' effectiveness in reducing depression in adults, suggesting scalability.

Key Points

  • Lifestyle-based interventions significantly reduce depressive symptoms, offering safe and effective treatment options.
  • Of 46 systematic reviews included, 32 featured meta-analysis revealing moderate-to-large effects of aerobic exercise.
  • Mind-body therapies also showed benefits, with high adherence rates among participants in several studies.
  • Heterogeneity limited the effectiveness of multicomponent interventions, highlighting the need for standardized trials.

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Gonzalez-Garcia et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d41dae713b0b5dfea671c8https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.83616
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