THE EFFECT OF PREGNANT GYSTERN WITH INCREASED SLEEP QUALITY IN PREGNANT MOTHERS TRIMESTER III AT LYDIA SIFRA'S CLINIC

Abstract

The third trimester of pregnancy requires special attention because the gestational age is increasing. Changes during pregnancy can trigger discomfort for pregnant women. Sleep is essential for health. Poor quality sleep can cause physiological and psychological disorders. One of the problems sleeping during pregnancy is influenced by changes in hormone levels. Pregnancy exercise is one of the options for non-pharmacological therapy so that it can have an impact on improving sleep quality. The choice of using non-pharmacological methods is more appropriate in treating sleep disorders in pregnant women, because the use of this method has less side effects than pharmacological methods. This type of research uses the studyquantitative research with quasi-experimental methodsby using a one group pretest posttest design. The population in this study is allThird trimester pregnant women with gestational age 28-36 weeks at Lydia Sifra Clinic, Kudus Regency as many as 48 pregnant women. With the number of research samples 32 respondents with purposive sampling technique. The data was processed using the Mc Nemar test. In this study, the PSQI questionnaire was used to measure sleep quality and an observation sheet for exercise for pregnant women. The results showed thatthere is influencepregnancy exercise by improving the quality of sleep of pregnant women in the third trimester at the ClinicLydia Sifra, with p value 0.000 (> 0.05). Advice for pregnant womenIt is expected that pregnant women in the third trimester can do pregnancy exercises once a week so that the quality of sleep will increase. And for further researchers, it is hoped that they can develop by adding factors that can affect sleep quality such as the level of anxiety and activity of pregnant women.