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KMID : 0606420040100010015
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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing
2004 Volume.10 No. 1 p.15 ~ p.22
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Effects of Postpartum Exercise on Mental Health
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Lee Sun-Ok
Kim Mi-Ok
Ahn Suk-Hee
Cho Young-Ran
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Abstract
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PURPOSE: This study was to examine the effect of postpartum exercise on mental health. Mental health comprises a 9 symptom dimension of Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism.
METHOD: A non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group study was conducted. Fifty-two puerperal women who were admitted to a postpartum ward of a mother-baby clinic in Pusan were recruited; 26 women were assigned to the experimental group and 26 women to the control group. Postpartum exercise was applied to the experimental group from postpartum day 3 for a period of 8 weeks while no exercise program was applied to the control group. Mental health withSCL-90-R was measured before and after exercise. Data was analyzed using mean, x2-test, t-test, and ANOVA by SPSS 10.0.
RESULT: The mental health status in the exercise group did not show a statistically significant decrease when compared to that of the control group.
CONCLUSION: There is no effect of postpartum exercise on women’s mental health during the first 8 weeks of the postpartum period. Further studies are needed for randomized clinical trials with a larger sample size.
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KEYWORD
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Postpartum, Exercise, Mental Health
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