Impact of Attending Prenatal Yoga Classes on Prepartum Maternal Mental Health: A QuasiExperimental Study

Abstract

Introduction Anxiety from the imagination of childbirth pain and fear of childbirth in pregnant mothers. Fear of childbirth has been associated with prolonged labor, childbirth complications that increased postpartum depression. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the impact of attending Prenatal Yoga Classes on Prepartum Maternal Mental Health. Methods The research design was a quasi-experiment of two groups with pre-test and post-test design. The sample was pregnant women who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 106 participants were divided into two groups: intervention, and control group. The research instrument was Mental health questionnaire based on the World Health Organization-5 Well Being Index (WHO-5). The ANOVA test was used to analyze the data. Result The average mental health score of the intervention group was higher (84.04) than that of the control group (67.32), with a p-value <0.001. Conclusions This study concludes that Attending Prenatal Yoga Classes on Prepartum can improve maternal mental health. This research suggest that prenatal yoga can be alternative for physical pregnancy to improve mental health and have positive impact on labor process.