Pengaruh Yoga Teratur Pada Kehamilan Terhadap Penurunan Tingkat Nyeri Pinggang Bawah Pada Primigravida dan Multigravida

The problem often occurs during pregnancy due to physiology and psychological
pain of pregnant women is lower back pain. Back pain perceived pregnant women
can cause discomfort that can bring bad quality of pregnant women’s life and can
affect the implementation of work and daily activities. The effort taken to reduce
discomfort is by relaxing yoga. The benefits of doing yoga during pregnancy can
facilitate blood circulation, maintain stamina and health, help mothers enjoy
pregnancy and can overcome the pain. The purpose of this study was to analyze the
effect of yoga on the decrease of back pain in primigravida and multigravida mother.
The research design used was experiment with pretest-posttest control group design.
Sampling was done by non random sampling technique with Sampling Consignment
method. The sample of this study were primigravida and multigravida pregnant
women with 24 - ≤ 32 weeks' gestation. The sample size was 60 respondents divided
into 30 respondents of intervention group at Public health center of Rami and 30
control group respondents at Public health center of Tomuan. Processing and data
analysis using Wilcoxon and Chi-square test.
The results of this study showed that the influence of yoga on the decrease of pain
level in primigravida mother before yoga was given p = 0,121 and after given p =
0,028 which showed significant difference between intervention group and control
group. There is no significant difference in multigravidally acquired mother (p>
0,05).
Conclusions in this study is that regular yoga in pregnancy can lower the level of
lower back pain in primigravida mothers. Regular yoga in pregnancy does not lower
the level of low back pain in multigravidal mothers.
Keywords: Yoga, Pregnancy, Low back pain.