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The comparative study of pregnance women’s physical symptoms
psychological stress and marriage satisfaction
Between yoga group and non-yoga group
Student: Chen Chiao-Ju Advisor: Dr. Li Te-Fen
Submitted to Institute of Health Industry Management
College of Management
Ching-Kuo Institute of Management and Health
Abstract
The best source of support for a married woman is her spouse. Being pregnant may cause physical and psychological impact on a woman. If a pregnant woman has lower satisfaction at her marriage, she is likely to suffer from greater physical and psychological pressure and discomfort. According to domestic and foreign researches, yoga is proved to be beneficial to physical and psychological adjustment as well as incitement of positive feeling. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the differences in the yoga class participating/non-participating expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction. This research was an investigative and comparative research, by means of a structured questionnaire comprising four aspects─ “Basic Attributes”, “Physical Signs during Pregnancy”, “Physical Pressure”, and “Marital Satisfaction”. The research subjects were 105 expectant mothers collected in an obstetrics/gynecology hospital clinic and a yoga room in northern Taiwan from Oct. 1, 2012 to Dec. 15, 2012. Fifty-two of them participated in yoga classes, while fifty-three of them did not participate in yoga classes. The questionnaire data were archived by means of Excel. Then, statistic analyses were undertaken through a Chinese version of SPSS 12.0 for statistical software package. The research findings indicated the followings:
1. The distribution of the research subjects’ basic attributes
In terms of the research subjects’ Age Distribution in demographic features, there was only one who is 19 years old in the two groups. Most of them were between the ages of 20 and 34. Most of the research subjects (63.5%) were inclined to be B type in their personality traits─ doing something to the best of their ability, and taking the world as it is. As for Educational Background, most of them were college graduates. Most of the research subjects (69.5%) were at work. As for Family Type, most of them had small families. Most of them had spouses graduating from colleges (49.5%). In terms of the gaps between their ages and their spouses’ ages, 69 of them were younger than their spouses. Also, 33.7% of them were pregnant unexpectedly, while most of them (66.3%) were pregnant in a planned way. About 61.9% of them had no exercise habits before their pregnancy, while 38.1% of them had exercise habits before their pregnancy. About 42.0% of them had no exercise habits after they were pregnant, while 58.2% of them had exercise habits after they were pregnant.
2. To understand the situations and correlation of expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction;
The correlation of expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction indicated positive correlation between physical signs and psychological pressure, negative correlation existed between psychological pressure and marital satisfaction, No correlation existed between physical sings and marital satisfaction.
3. To understand the influential factors in expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction
Expectant mothers’ feeling of physical signs, psychological pressure during pregnancy would be affected by the factors “unexpected/expected pregnancy” and “Primipara/multipara” respectively. The scores of their physical signs would be affected by the differences in their family types and number of births. The research subjects’ psychological pressure and marital satisfaction would be affected by the disparities in household chores load and gestational weeks. The occurrence rates of expectant mothers’ physical signs would be affected by their ages for marriage.
4. To compare the differences in the yoga class participating/non-participating expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction
No correlation existed between physical signs and marital satisfaction. No statistic differences existed in the scores of expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction, regardless of their participation/non-participation in yoga exercise classes. This indicated that the scores of the yoga-participating expectant mothers’ physical signs, psychological pressure and marital satisfaction were not different from those who did not participate in yoga classes.
The research suggested: For later researchers, they can design “Time Series” so as to collect the continuous changes in the yoga-participating expectant mothers’ three variables─“physical signs”, “psychological pressure” and “marital satisfaction”─during the three stages of their pregnancy. The results of the sorts of expectant mothers’ physical signs and psychological pressure in this research can serve as the reference for obstetrics clinics or prenatal classes. Aiming at expectant mothers’ physical signs and pressure, proper nursing care guidance or clarification should be provided, so as to relieve the occurrence rates and discomfort of expectant mothers’ physical signs, assist in regulating their psychological pressure, and enhance their life quality and marital satisfaction during their pregnancy. Besides, although the number of expectant mothers with exercise habits during their pregnancy increased (from 38.1% to 58%), there were still 42% of expectant mothers had no habits during their pregnancy. The research suggested that the caregivers to expectant mothers should face up to this issue, for helping expectant mothers and lying-in women strengthen their exercise habits much more.
Key Words: Yoga,Pregnant,Phychological Pressure,Marital Satisfaction
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