PrimigravidPatients’ CortisolLevel AndAnxietyLevel Toward Childbirth With Pregnancy ExercisesAnd Healing Touch

Sartika, Yan and Harahap, Dewi Anggriani and Rahmi, Junaidi and Hindratni, Findy and Sari, Septi Indah Permata (2023) PrimigravidPatients’ CortisolLevel AndAnxietyLevel Toward Childbirth With Pregnancy ExercisesAnd Healing Touch. Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results, 14 (3). pp. 3207-3216. ISSN ISSN: Print -0976-9234, Online - 2229-7723

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Abstract

Pregnancy is one of women’s natural processes. At the end of pregnancy, the mother will encounter a childbirth process started with uterine contractions and followed by pain which causes fear and anxiety. Prior to childbirth, Primigravid patients can take pregnancy exercises and healing touch as two of the antenatal care services to reduce anxiety.This study aims to determine the effect of pregnancy exercise and healing touch on cortisol levels and anxiety levels in Primigravid patients toward childbirth.This is quasi-experimental type of research using a one-group pretest-posttest design. Observations were conducted on 30 primigravida pregnant women in the third trimester (28-35 weeks) of pregnancy. They were divided into 2 groups: 15 people in the pregnancy exercise group and another 15 people in the healing touch group. The research was conducted in January-December 2017 at BPM Dince Safrina Pekanbaru. The Purposive Sampling Technique was used for sample selection, and Shapiro-Wilk was used for the data normality test. Whereas, the test of cortisol level and level of anxiety in the pregnancy exercise and healing touch groups used a dependent T-test, and the test for cortisol levels and level of anxiety differences towards Primigravid patients between those in the pregnancy exercise group and those in healing touch group used independent T-test.The research result showed differences in the Primigravid patient’s cortisol levels and anxiety levels before and after pregnancy exercise prior to childbirth. It also came true before and after the healing touch. Whereas, other results showed no difference in Primigravid patients’ cortisol levels and anxiety levels between those joining the healing touch and those with a pregnancy exercise program. Thus,pregnancy exercise and healing touch can work as alternative activities to reduce primigravida pregnant women’s cortisol levels and anxietylevels, and eventually scale down potential pregnancy complications and childbirth.

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