Effectiveness of antenatal exercises and yoga on biophysiological parameters like temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure among antenatal women

Safe maternity with improved neonatal outcome is expected on proper antenatal care services. Exercise has become a fundamental aspect of women's lives and an important constituent of antenatal care. The aim of the study includes toevaluate the effectiveness of antenatal exercises with yoga on biophysiological parameters like temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure among antenatal women. The research design adopted to this study includes “True-experimental, pre-test, post-test control group design” .sample: antenatal mothers who are in second trimester of pregnancy. Sampling technique: simple random sampling technique was adopted based on inclusion criteria. The study sample includes 200, 100 in experimental group and 100 in control group. Results of the study revealed that related to temperature. The ‘t’ and ‘P’ values for C-Pre-Pri and C-Post-Pri are 2.511 and <0.015 ,C-Pre-Multi and C-Post-Multi are 2.318 and <0.025 E-Pre-Pri and E-Post-Pri are 2.045 and <0.046 which were significant at 1% level. Pulse rate: The‘t’ and ‘P’ values for C-Pre-Pri and C-Post-Pri are 3.642 and <0.001 which was significant at 1% level , E-Pre-Pri and E-Post-Pri are 2.856 and <0.006 and E-Pre-Multi and E-Post-Multi are 2.182 and <0.034 respectively. Both were significant at 1% level. Respiration rate: The ‘t’ and ‘P’ values for C-Pre-Pri and C-Post-Pri are 2.378 and <0.021 which was significant at 1% level, E-Pre-Pri and E-Post-Pri are 3.066 and <0.004 and E-Pre-Multi and E-Post-Multi are 2.271 and <0.028 respectively. Both were significant at 1% level. Systolic blood pressure: The ‘t’ and ‘P’ values for C-Pre-Pri and C-Post-Pri are 2.133 and <0.038, C-Pre-Multi and C-Post-Multi are 2.551and p=0.014. E-Pre-Pri and E-Post-Pri are 3.128 and <0.003 and E-Pre-Multi and E-Post-Multi are 3.319 and <0.002 respectively. All are significant at 1% level. Diastolic blood pressure: E-Pre-Pri and E-Post-Pri are 3.908 and <0.001 and E-Pre-Multi and E-Post-Multi are 4.307 and <0.001 respectively.Both were significant at 1% level. The study findings concluded that antenatal exercises and yoga were very effective interventions in maintaining biophysiological parameters. In experimental group it was noticed that slight decrease in all biophysiological parameters and increased comfort to the mothers.