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Healthcare Professionals' Beliefs and Views towards Exercise during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece.
- Source :
- Healthcare (2227-9032); Jun2024, Vol. 12 Issue 11, p1089, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background: Healthcare professionals appear to play a key role in shaping pregnant women's views and attitudes towards lifestyle issues, such as exercise. The aim of this study is to investigate the views and beliefs of Greek midwives and obstetricians regarding exercise during pregnancy. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted during the period of January 2022–March 2023. For this study, 237 Greek midwives and obstetricians employed in healthcare settings in Attica, Greece completed an anonymous and self-report questionnaire. Four different/independent models of multivariate analyses of variance were conducted. Results: The vast majority of these healthcare professionals (88.6%) believed that exercise during pregnancy is generally beneficial. According to the multivariate analyses, healthcare professionals with postgraduate/doctoral studies were more likely to believe that (a) exercise is generally beneficial (p = 0.03), (b) pregnant women should be informed about it (p = 0.028), (c) informing pregnant women is necessary/useful (p = 0.023), and (d) pregnant women showed interest in it (p = 0.034). Also, freelance midwives were more likely to believe that pregnant women should be informed about exercise (p = 0.006), and that they showed interest in it (p = 0.034). In addition, (a) freelance midwives (p = 0.050), and those who had experience in antenatal counselling (p = 0.037), as well as (b) obstetricians who were largely experienced in monitoring normal pregnancies (p = 0.001), were less likely to associate exercise during pregnancy with the occurrence of placental abruption. Conclusion: Alongside healthcare professionals' educational level, their professional setting and professional experience emerge as key factors and need to be considered when designing innovative interventions to support exercise during pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CROSS-sectional method
SELF-evaluation
HEALTH literacy
PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
STATISTICAL correlation
HEALTH attitudes
OBSTETRICIANS
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
EXERCISE therapy
HEALTH
STATISTICAL sampling
FISHER exact test
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
QUESTIONNAIRES
PREGNANT women
MULTIVARIATE analysis
INFORMATION resources
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
MANN Whitney U Test
CHI-squared test
PRENATAL care
ATTITUDES of medical personnel
OCCUPATIONAL exposure
RESEARCH
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
GREEKS
DATA analysis software
COUNSELING
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22279032
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Healthcare (2227-9032)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177864601
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12111089