The Effect of Prenatal Yoga on 3rd Trimester Pregnancy Discomfort
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https://doi.org/10.53713/htechj.v3i2.334Keywords:
Discomfort, prenatal yoga, 3rd trimester pregnant womenAbstract
The comfort of pregnant women in facing childbirth can be in the form of physical and psychological comfort. Pregnancy is a unique and natural thing where pregnant women experience several changes in themselves. This change is a form of adaptation from a non-pregnant condition to a pregnancy condition that is physiologically and psychologically felt during pregnancy. One effort to reduce pregnancy discomfort is with prenatal yoga. This study aims to determine the effect of prenatal yoga on pregnancy discomfort in the third trimester at the Jomin Health Center. Using a quasi-experimental one-group design. The population was 40 respondents in the third trimester of pregnancy. The sampling technique used was total sampling. The instrument used was a PDS questionnaire sheet. The analysis technique above uses univariate and bivariate analysis with the Wilcoxon sign test. The univariate results obtained an average discomfort of pregnant women before being given prenatal yoga of 50.70 and after being given prenatal yoga of 29.85. The study results of discomfort in pregnant women in the third trimester with a p-value of 0.0001 show that prenatal yoga affects discomfort in pregnant women in the third trimester at the Jomin Health Center. Prenatal yoga has an effect on pregnancy discomfort in the third trimester at the Jomin Health Center. In pregnancy care, midwives should apply prenatal yoga in the implementation of pregnancy classes so that pregnant women can do prenatal yoga independently.
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