The effectiveness of yoga exercises on childbirth anxiety reduction and the improvement of mental health in pregnant women

Maryam Astarabadi, Nooshin Taqinezhad

Abstract


This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga exercises on mental health in pregnant women. In a pretest - posttest plan with control group, taking into account the level of confidence (0.95), the test power (0.80) and volume effects (0.50), a random sample of 40 pregnant women were selected and divided into two groups of 20 people. After pre-test, the experimental group was trained through yoga. The data collection tool was the symptoms scale list of mental disorders-short form (SCL-25). Analysis of covariance was used for inferential analysis of data and testing the research hypotheses. The results of analysis of covariance showed that practicing yoga can improve overall mental health of intervention group in the post-test. The results of analysis of covariance on the mental health variable showed that yoga exercises on components of anxiety, depression and physical symptoms at the level of (0.01) and the components of interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety and psychosis at (0.05) is significant.

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