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Water Exercise and Quality of Life in Pregnancy: A Randomised Clinical Trial

Background: Physical exercise helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle and its practice is recommended for women during pregnancy as a means of limiting the negative effects on the body that may take place and to optimise well-being, mood and sleep patterns, as well as encouraging daily physical activi...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Blanque, Raquel, Aguilar-Cordero, María José, Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia, Menor-Rodríguez, María José, Montiel-Troya, Maria, Sánchez-García, Juan Carlos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32079342
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041288
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author Rodríguez-Blanque, Raquel
Aguilar-Cordero, María José
Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia
Menor-Rodríguez, María José
Montiel-Troya, Maria
Sánchez-García, Juan Carlos
author_facet Rodríguez-Blanque, Raquel
Aguilar-Cordero, María José
Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia
Menor-Rodríguez, María José
Montiel-Troya, Maria
Sánchez-García, Juan Carlos
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description Background: Physical exercise helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle and its practice is recommended for women during pregnancy as a means of limiting the negative effects on the body that may take place and to optimise well-being, mood and sleep patterns, as well as encouraging daily physical activity, enhancing the ability to work and preventing pregnancy-related complications. Aim: To analyse the quality of life in pregnancy for women who complete a programme of moderate physical activity in water, following a designed method that the woman can perform physical exercise safely during pregnancy called the SWEP (study of water exercise during pregnancy) method. Materials and methods: A randomised clinical trial was performed. One hundred and twenty-nine pregnant women were randomly assigned either to an exercise class following the SWEP method (EG, n = 65) or to a control group (CG, n = 64). The trial began in week 20 of pregnancy (May 2016) and ended in week 37 (October 2016). Heath-related quality of life (HRQoL) was evaluated with the SF36v2 health questionnaire at weeks 12 and 35 of pregnancy. Results: The HRQoL score decreased significantly between weeks 12 and 35 of gestation, except for the mental health component, which in the CG fell by −3.28 points and in the EG increased slightly (p > 0.05). Among the CG, the score for the mental health component at week 35 was ≤42, indicating a positive screening risk of depression (39.20 ± 4.16). Conclusions: Physical activity programmes in water, such as SWEP, enhance the HRQoL of pregnant women.
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spelling pubmed-70684102020-03-19 Water Exercise and Quality of Life in Pregnancy: A Randomised Clinical Trial Rodríguez-Blanque, Raquel Aguilar-Cordero, María José Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia Menor-Rodríguez, María José Montiel-Troya, Maria Sánchez-García, Juan Carlos Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Physical exercise helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle and its practice is recommended for women during pregnancy as a means of limiting the negative effects on the body that may take place and to optimise well-being, mood and sleep patterns, as well as encouraging daily physical activity, enhancing the ability to work and preventing pregnancy-related complications. Aim: To analyse the quality of life in pregnancy for women who complete a programme of moderate physical activity in water, following a designed method that the woman can perform physical exercise safely during pregnancy called the SWEP (study of water exercise during pregnancy) method. Materials and methods: A randomised clinical trial was performed. One hundred and twenty-nine pregnant women were randomly assigned either to an exercise class following the SWEP method (EG, n = 65) or to a control group (CG, n = 64). The trial began in week 20 of pregnancy (May 2016) and ended in week 37 (October 2016). Heath-related quality of life (HRQoL) was evaluated with the SF36v2 health questionnaire at weeks 12 and 35 of pregnancy. Results: The HRQoL score decreased significantly between weeks 12 and 35 of gestation, except for the mental health component, which in the CG fell by −3.28 points and in the EG increased slightly (p > 0.05). Among the CG, the score for the mental health component at week 35 was ≤42, indicating a positive screening risk of depression (39.20 ± 4.16). Conclusions: Physical activity programmes in water, such as SWEP, enhance the HRQoL of pregnant women. MDPI 2020-02-17 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7068410/ /pubmed/32079342 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041288 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Aguilar-Cordero, María José
Marín-Jiménez, Ana Eugenia
Menor-Rodríguez, María José
Montiel-Troya, Maria
Sánchez-García, Juan Carlos
Water Exercise and Quality of Life in Pregnancy: A Randomised Clinical Trial
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title_fullStr Water Exercise and Quality of Life in Pregnancy: A Randomised Clinical Trial
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title_short Water Exercise and Quality of Life in Pregnancy: A Randomised Clinical Trial
title_sort water exercise and quality of life in pregnancy: a randomised clinical trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32079342
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041288
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