The Effectiveness of Pelvic Rocking Exercises on the Length of Time of the First and the Second Stage of Labor

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.028How to use a DOI?

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pelvic rocking exercises, length of labor time

Abstract

Background: Prolonged labor is the most common cause of cesarean delivery. Risks of prolonged labor in mothers are bleeding due to uterine atony, laceration of the birth canal, infection, fatigue, and shock while the risks of prolonged labor in the fetus can increase the risk of severe asphyxia, cerebral trauma, infection and injury from the action. Good physical preparation can minimize prolonged labor. One of the physical preparations is by doing exercises. Pelvic Rocking Exercises (PRE) is one of the pelvic exercises which aims to train, maintain pelvic mobility and help decrease the head into the pelvic cavity so that it is expected to shorten the length of time in the first stage and the second stage of labor. Method: This study was quasi-experiment research involving 164 respondents who gave birth in the Public Health Service Center in Banjarnegara. The respondents were divided into 2 groups: the experimental group with PRE given in 6 meetings from 34 weeks’ gestation while the control group was only with the standard care of the Public Health Service Center. Data were collected by questionnaire, examination, observation sheet of PRE implementation and observation sheet of labor with partograph. Data analysis done in this study were using Product Moment correlation and Mann Whitney U. Results: There was not any correlation between the characteristics of maternal age, parity, gestational age, High Uterine Fundus and baby birth weight with the length of time of labor in the first stage ρ-value (0.25-0.89) > 0.05. There was a significant correlation between the characteristics of age, parity, and gestational age with the length of time of labor in the second stage with ρ value (0.0001-0.020) < α (0.05) while the variable of High Uterine Fundus and baby birth weight had no correlation with the length of time of labor the second stage. There was a significant difference in the length of time of labor during the active phase between the group with the PRE treatment and the control group with ρ-value 0.0001 < α (0.05). On the contrary, at the time of the second stage of labor, there was not any significant difference between the experimental group with the PRE and the control group with ρ-value 0.451 > α (0.05). Conclusion: PRE effectively shortens the length of time of the first stage of labor while there is not any significant difference between the experimental group and the control group on the length of time of the second stage of labor with PRE treatment.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Surtiningsih
AU  - Linda Yanti
AU  - Wilis Sukmaningtyas
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - The Effectiveness of Pelvic Rocking Exercises on the Length of Time of the First and the Second Stage of Labor
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 116
EP  - 124
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.028
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.028
ID  - 2020
ER  -