The effect of yoga in pregnancy on anxiety and child birth self –efficacy of nulliparous pregnant women

General Purpose: determining the effect of yoga on anxiety and self-efficacy in labour of primipar women referred to health centers in Zahedan in 2017 Special Purpose: Determination and Comparison of mean changes in anxiety score of primipar women in two groups of intervention (yoga) and control Determination and comparison of mean changes in self-efficacy score in labour of primipara women in two groups of intervention (yoga) and control

Studied population included primipar women referred to health centers. sampling and randomization method is as follows, first the list of all eligible women is prepared from the selected health centers, then after receiving permission of participated eligible women, individuals with randomization block will be divided into two groups: intervention and control. Each participant in the intervention and control group is assigned a code. Both of intervention and control group included 30 individuals

. Intervention is conducted in the hall where Yoga instructor by a trained researcher are present. This is a clinical trial study. Since the nature of the study is sport, it is not possible to blind people. Only the statistics specialist will be unaware of this matter that, which person belongs to which group (intervention or control).

The criteria for entering the study are: gestational age of 18-40 , singleton, gestational age of 27-26 weeks, Iranian, having reading and writing skills, non-use of psychosocial drugs, non-attendance at yoga classes and similar sports, lack of physical illness (performing yoga exercises can endanger the health of one's or his fetus) such as injury or spinal cord surgery, no recurrent abortions, lack of addiction, lack of physical and mental illness, lack of obstetric problems such as cerclage, high fever, rupture of membranes, Placentaprevia and polyhydramnios.Exclusion criteria: internal problems and Surgeryو hypertension in pregnancy و Diagnosing Placenta Previa , threat of premature labor - unwillingness to cooperate and participate in aerobics and Pilates classes , Lack of regular attendance in meetings.

Intervention Two questionnaires namely, anxiety Inventory and self-efficacy with a demographic information form are completed at the same time on 26th week in intervention and control group. Yoga intervention is conducted from week 27 to 31 for 5 weeks every three days. The post-test is repeated at week 34 from both group.

Limitations Non-attendance at yoga classes that is followed up by phone. If there is a problem during the exercise, a visit of gynecologist will be taken.

Random blocks

This is a clinical trial study Since the nature of the study is sport, it is not possible to blind people. Only the statistics specialist will be unaware of this matter that, which person belongs to which group (intervention or control).