Women's Health Nursing (여성건강간호학회지)
- Volume 10 Issue 1
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- Pages.15-22
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- 2004
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- 3022-7666(pISSN)
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- 3022-8247(eISSN)
Effects of Postpartum Exercise on Mental Health
산후운동이 산욕부의 정신건강에 미치는 영향
- Lee, Sun-Ok (Bumin Hospital) ;
- Kim, Mi-Ok (School of Nursing, Pusan National University) ;
- Ahn, Suk-Hee (School of Nursing, Pusan National University) ;
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Cho, Young-Ran
(School of Nursing, Pusan National University)
- Published : 2004.03.20
Abstract
Purpose: This study was to examine the effect of postpartum exercise on mental health. Mental health comprises a 9 symptom dimension of Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism. Method: A non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group study was conducted. Fifty-two puerperal women who were admitted to a postpartum ward of a mother-baby clinic in Pusan were recruited; 26 women were assigned to the experimental group and 26 women to the control group. Postpartum exercise was applied to the experimental group from postpartum day 3 for a period of 8 weeks while no exercise program was applied to the control group. Mental health with SCL-90-R was measured before and after exercise. Data was analyzed using mean,