The Effectivities of Yoga Gymnastic to Decrease the Level of Postpartum Blues Incidence

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10.2991/ahsr.k.210115.086How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Postpartum Blues, Yoga Gymnastic, Postpartum mother

Abstract

Postpartum blues in postpartum mothers are often neglected and ignored so they are not diagnosed and are not cared for properly. If the postpartum blues cannot be recovered, this situation will be developing into postpartum depression and even postpartum psychosis. The rate of postpartum blues incidents in Indonesia is between 50-70% of postpartum women. 75% of them occurred in primiparous mothers. One of 10 women who have just delivered birth have a tendency to experience postpartum blues. Efforts that can be done to overcome the postpartum blues is to do light exercise with yoga gymnastic. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of yoga gymnastic to reduce the incidence of postpartum blues in postpartum mothers. This research used a Quasi Experiment design study “Psssre-Post Test Only Control Group Design” with data analysis using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. A pre-test has been conducted in this research to see the incidence of postpartum blues, then, yoga exercise were given in the treatment group, while education was given in the control group. The Subjects were postpartum mothers of 7th day until 14th day post childbirth, amounting to 22 respondents in each group. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, whereas the data collection technique used was EPDS questionnaire. The results of the study were obtained clinically in the treatment group after the yoga gymnastic treatment was normal so that a significant result (p = <0.002) was given after the treatment between the pre-test and post-test groups in the treatment group. In Conclusion, yoga gymnastic have influence in the way that it is reducing the incidence of postpartum blues.

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AU  - Kusumastuti
AU  - Hastin Ika Indriyastuti
AU  - Lutfia Uli Na’mah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/16
TI  - The Effectivities of Yoga Gymnastic to Decrease the Level of Postpartum Blues Incidence
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Health Science and Nursing (ICoSIHSN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 431
EP  - 435
SN  - 2468-5739
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DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.210115.086
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