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Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study

The aim was to analyze the knowledge and experience of women regarding physical activity during their latest pregnancy. An anonymous questionnaire was completed electronically, in 2018, by 9345 women who gave birth at least once, with 52% of the women having performed exercises during pregnancy. Phy...

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Autores principales: Walasik, Izabela, Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna, Kosińska Kaczyńska, Katarzyna, Szymusik, Iwona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182850
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051771
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author Walasik, Izabela
Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna
Kosińska Kaczyńska, Katarzyna
Szymusik, Iwona
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description The aim was to analyze the knowledge and experience of women regarding physical activity during their latest pregnancy. An anonymous questionnaire was completed electronically, in 2018, by 9345 women who gave birth at least once, with 52% of the women having performed exercises during pregnancy. Physically non-active respondents suffered from gestational hypertension (9.2% vs. 6.7%; p < 0.01) and gave birth prematurely (9% vs. 7%; p < 0.01) to newborns with a low birth weight significantly more often (6% vs. 3.6%; p < 0.001). Physically active women delivered vaginally more often (61% vs. 55%; p < 0.001) and were more likely to have a spontaneous onset of the delivery as compared with non-active women (73.8% vs. 70.7% p = 0.001). The women who were informed by gynaecologist about the beneficial influence of physical activity during pregnancy exercised significantly more often (67% vs. 44% p < 0.001). In addition, 13% of the women felt discrimination due to their physical activity during a pregnancy, 22% of respondents’ physical activity was not accepted by their environment, and 39.1% of the women were told by others to stop physical exercise because it was bad for the baby’s health. Physical activity during pregnancy is associated with improved fitness, decreased pregnancy ailments occurrence, and therefore influences the course of pregnancy and delivery in a positive way.
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spelling pubmed-70843362020-03-24 Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study Walasik, Izabela Kwiatkowska, Katarzyna Kosińska Kaczyńska, Katarzyna Szymusik, Iwona Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The aim was to analyze the knowledge and experience of women regarding physical activity during their latest pregnancy. An anonymous questionnaire was completed electronically, in 2018, by 9345 women who gave birth at least once, with 52% of the women having performed exercises during pregnancy. Physically non-active respondents suffered from gestational hypertension (9.2% vs. 6.7%; p < 0.01) and gave birth prematurely (9% vs. 7%; p < 0.01) to newborns with a low birth weight significantly more often (6% vs. 3.6%; p < 0.001). Physically active women delivered vaginally more often (61% vs. 55%; p < 0.001) and were more likely to have a spontaneous onset of the delivery as compared with non-active women (73.8% vs. 70.7% p = 0.001). The women who were informed by gynaecologist about the beneficial influence of physical activity during pregnancy exercised significantly more often (67% vs. 44% p < 0.001). In addition, 13% of the women felt discrimination due to their physical activity during a pregnancy, 22% of respondents’ physical activity was not accepted by their environment, and 39.1% of the women were told by others to stop physical exercise because it was bad for the baby’s health. Physical activity during pregnancy is associated with improved fitness, decreased pregnancy ailments occurrence, and therefore influences the course of pregnancy and delivery in a positive way. MDPI 2020-03-09 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7084336/ /pubmed/32182850 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051771 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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Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study
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title_short Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort physical activity patterns among 9000 pregnant women in poland: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182850
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051771
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