Pregnant women’s Knowledge About Exercise During Pregnancy: Military Hospital-2022

Abstract

Introduction: Exercise is a bodily activity that improves or maintains physical fitness and overall health andwellness exercise during pregnancy is important and can help with some common discomforts of pregnancy andeven help prepare the pregnant women body for labor and delivery. (6)Objective: To study the pregnant women knowledge regarding exercise during pregnancy.Methods This is a descriptive cross sectional hospital base study which was carried out in military hospital inKhartoum state - Sudan, the data were collected by structured questionnaire and analyzed using the statisticalprogram for social sciences (SPSS) version 21Convenient sampling technique was used and the samples were 70pregnant women. The knowledge is categorized good (>60%), Moderate (50%-60%), poor (< 50%). A statisticalsignificance was considered at p-value of < 0.05.Result: The study revealed that the total mean knowledge about type of exercise was (95.7%), walking was themost common exercise among the study sample, 90.0 believe that exercise during pregnancy facilitates normaldelivery, and vaginal bleeding was considered as contraindication among (84.3%). factors influencing exerciseduring pregnancy (31.4%) said fear from complication is one of the factors influencing exercise during pregnancyThe overall knowledge of pregnant women about exercise during pregnancy was poor (36.3%:).Conclusion: Nursing education is the major tasks of nursing profession. The study concluded that there isinsufficient knowledge of pregnant women about exercise during pregnancy 52 (74.3%). Fallowed by no relationbetween educational level, age and knowledge about type of exercise, regarding benefits and contraindications toexercise during pregnancy (p. value < 0.05). so the study recommended to conduct more researches to enhance inincreasing mother’s knowledge about exercise during pregnancy.