Prenatal Yoga for Mental Health: A Systematic Literature Review

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

yoga, prenatal, complementary therapy, midwifery

Abstract

Women will be proud if they enjoy their pregnancy process in a healthy condition both physically and psychologically. However, some pregnancy can trigger psychological problems in pregnant women. One of complementary therapies that can be practiced to maintain a healthy mental condition during pregnancy is prenatal yoga. Nevertheless, because of less parental knowledge and family support, only few people know about prenatal yoga. Thus, the issue of maintaining mental health of pregnant women still lacks. The purpose of this study is to determine the mental health conditions of pregnant women who have attended prenatal yoga and to determine the effectiveness of prenatal yoga on the mental health conditions of pregnant women. Using 7 steps to create Systematic Literature Review, 942 articles from one database (PubMed) were selected for critical appraisal. The articles were selected based on a quantitative method with a variety of designs. 12 articles that matched the variety criteria and considered as good were divided and mapped into several points namely fetal response, depression and stress, anxiety, complications, immunity, and self-efficacy. A discussion was made based on the research findings of the selected articles. Research suggests that prenatal yoga is safe and have many benefits for pregnant women and their babies. The benefit of prenatal yoga are improving nerve response from the pituitary gland to reduce cortisol levels, improving mood, inducing positive thinking, reducing anxiety, stress, and depression, and increasing the confidence of pregnant women from labor until the puerperium.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Renita Rizkya Danti
AU  - Rosmita Nuzuliana
AU  - Herlin Fitriana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/20
TI  - Prenatal Yoga for Mental Health: A Systematic Literature Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Public Health Conference (UPHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 272
EP  - 280
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.052
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.052
ID  - Danti2020
ER  -