The effect of practicing yoga during pregnancy on labor stages length, anxiety and pain: a randomized controlled trial
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Ellahe Mohyadin
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Zahra Molamomanaei
Abstract
Background
Anxiety and fear of labor pain has led to elevated cesarean section rate in some countries. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of yoga in pregnancy on anxiety, labor pain and length of labor stages.
Methods
This clinical trial study was performed on 84 nulliparous women who were at least 18 years old and were randomly divided into two groups of yoga and control groups. Pregnancy Yoga Program consisting of 6 60-min training sessions was started every 2 weeks from week 26 of pregnancy and continued until 37 weeks of gestation. Anxiety severity at maternal admission to labor was measured by the Spielbergers State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and labor pain was measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) at dilatation (4–5 cm) and 2 h after the first measurement. Data were analyzed using Chi-Square and t-test.
Results
Intervention group reported less pain at dilatation (4–5 cm) (p=0.001) and 2 h after the first measurement (p=0.001) than the control group. Stat anxiety was also lower in intervention group than the control group (p=0.003) at the entrance to labor room. Subjects in the control group required more induction compared to intervention group (p=0.003). Women in intervention group experienced shorter duration of the first phase of the labor than the control group (p=0.002). Also, the total duration of two stages of labor was shorter in intervention group than the control group (p=0.003).
Conclusions
Practicing yoga during pregnancy may reduce women’s anxiety during labor; shorten labor stages, and lower labor pain.
Funding source: Rafsanjan university of medical sciences
Award Identifier / Grant number: 97180
Acknowledgments
At the end, we would like to thank the staffs of the comprehensive health centers and staffs of NikNafs Hospital, and all pregnant mothers who participated in this study. This study was funded by Rafsanjan University of medical sciences, and then we thank this University.
Research funding: This study was funded by Rafsanjan University of medical sciences.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
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