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

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga exercises on mental health in pregnantwomen. 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 womenwere selected and divided into two groups of 20 people. After pre-test, the experimental group wastrained through yoga. The data collection tool was the symptoms scale list of mental disordersshortform (SCL-25). Analysis of covariance was used for inferential analysis of data and testing theresearch hypotheses. The results of analysis of covariance showed that practicing yoga can improveoverall mental health of intervention group in the post-test. The results of analysis of covariance onthe mental health variable showed that yoga exercises on components of anxiety, depression andphysical symptoms at the level of (0.01) and the components of interpersonal sensitivity, anxietyand psychosis at (0.05) is significant.

کلیدواژه ها:

Yoga ، Pregnancy ، Mental Health