Department of Midwifery, Collage of Medicine and Health Science, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia.
BMC Womens Health. 2023 Nov 27;23(1):630. doi: 10.1186/s12905-023-02756-8.
Participating in physical exercise enhances the physical and mental health of pregnant women. Preventing excessive weight gain, decreasing gestational hypertension, reducing back pain and labor complications are some of the main benefits of physical exercise during pregnancy and childbirth. Scrutinizing factors associated with sedentary life style among women during pregnancy could aid to design effective strategies to tackle the problem. Despite its benefit, little is explored about knowledge, attitude and practice of physical exercise among pregnant women in the study setting.
To assess prevalence of knowledge, attitude and practice of physical exercise among pregnant women who visit antenatal care at public health facilities of Hawassa town, Ethiopia, in 2023.
Facility based survey was conducted from November-December, in 2021. Data were collected using interview administered and structured questionnaire. Data were cleaned, coded and entered using Epi-data 4.6 and exported into SPSS 25 for analysis. Descriptive statistics was done using frequency count, percentage and mean values of variables. Finally, findings are presented using text, tables and charts.
All of the study subjects completed interview making a response rate of 100% in this study. The mean adequate knowledge score was 42.2%. Positive attitude towards physical exercise during pregnancy was accounted as 63.7% and proportion of good practice of physical exercise was as 35.8%. Regarding practice of exercise, most (95.9%) of the subjects walk, however; only 11(8.9%) women perform pelvic floor exercise were the highest and least practiced physical exercise. Concerning knowledge of exercise, prevent excess weight 72.1% and increasing energy 53.2% were the commonly known benefits of physical exercise. Breathing difficulty (41.3%), chest pain (39.8%) and premature labor (34.0%) were the predominant perceptions of contra-indication of physical exercise during pregnancy.
In conclusion, the proportion of knowledge, attitude and practice of antenatal exercise is found to be sub-optimum in the study area. Therefore, health education should be enhanced about the benefit of physical exercise during pregnancy.
参加体育锻炼可以增进孕妇的身心健康。预防体重过度增加、降低妊娠高血压、减少背痛和分娩并发症是怀孕期间和分娩期间进行体育锻炼的一些主要益处。审查孕妇怀孕期间久坐生活方式相关因素，可以帮助设计解决问题的有效策略。尽管有好处，但在研究环境中，很少探讨孕妇对体育锻炼的知识、态度和实践。
评估 2023 年在埃塞俄比亚 Hawassa 镇公共卫生设施接受产前护理的孕妇对体育锻炼的知识、态度和实践的流行率。
2021 年 11 月至 12 月进行了基于设施的调查。使用访谈和结构化问卷收集数据。使用 Epi-data 4.6 对数据进行清理、编码和输入，并将其导出到 SPSS 25 进行分析。使用变量的频率计数、百分比和平均值进行描述性统计。最后，使用文本、表格和图表呈现结果。
所有研究对象都完成了访谈，本研究的应答率为 100%。足够知识的平均得分是 42.2%。对怀孕期间进行体育锻炼的积极态度为 63.7%，良好实践的比例为 35.8%。关于运动锻炼的实践，大多数（95.9%）孕妇选择散步，然而，只有 11 名（8.9%）妇女进行盆底运动是最高和最少实践的体育锻炼。关于运动锻炼的知识，预防体重过度增加（72.1%）和增加能量（53.2%）是体育锻炼最常见的益处。怀孕期间运动锻炼的禁忌症主要是呼吸困难（41.3%）、胸痛（39.8%）和早产（34.0%）。
总之，在研究区域，产前运动的知识、态度和实践的比例被发现是不理想的。因此，应加强关于怀孕期间体育锻炼益处的健康教育。
