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- Title
The Effect of Integrated Yoga on Labor Outcome: A Randomized Controlled Study.
- Authors
Maharana, Satyapriya; Nagarathna, Raghuram; Padmalatha, Venkatram; Nagendra, Hongasandra Ramarao; Hankey, Alex
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Antenatal yoga has been found to be useful and reported to have many beneficial effects. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of yoga on labor outcome. METHODS: This randomized two-armed active control study recruited 96 women with normal pregnancy. The experimental group practiced integrated yoga and the control group practiced standard antenatal exercises (1 hr/day), from 18 to 20 weeks of gestation until term. RESULTS: The first stage of labor was 4.71 ± 0.59 and 6.19 ± 0.79 hr in yoga and control groups, respectively (p <.001, independent samples t test); the second stage was 23.41 ± 7.68 min in yoga and 55.19 ± 10.87 min in control group (p <.001); the third stage took 9.07 ± 2.35 min in yoga and 12.96 ± 2.86 min in control group (p <.001). Fewer number of women in yoga group required epidural analgesia (p <.001). The cesarean sections (7/51 in yoga and 18/45 in control; p =.004) and complications of pregnancy (intrauterine growth restriction [IUGR], pregnancy-induced hypertension [PIH], and preterm labor) were fewer (p =.010) in yoga than in control group. Birth weight of babies (p <.001) was higher and Apgar scores (p <.001) were better in yoga as compared to the control group. CONCLUSION: Yoga during pregnancy decreases the duration of all stages of labor, complications of pregnancy, need for epidural analgesia, and cesarean sections; it also improves birth weight and Apgar scores of the infant.
- Subjects
APGAR score; CONFIDENCE intervals; LABOR (Obstetrics); EVALUATION of medical care; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY theory; T-test (Statistics); YOGA; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DATA analysis software; PATIENTS' attitudes; EPIDURAL analgesia; ODDS ratio
- Publication
International Journal of Childbirth, 2013, Vol 3, Issue 3, p165
- ISSN
2156-5287
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/2156-5287.3.3.165