PRENATAL YOGA AGAINST PREGNANCY ANXIETY: EFFORTS TO REDUCE PREGNANT WOMEN’S ANXIETY BEFORE LABOR DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC LITERATUR REVIEW

Abstract

Introduction: Changes that occur during pregnancy are not only physical, but psychological. The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the psychological health of the community, especially pregnant women. The results showed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, 75% of pregnant women in Baturraden District experienced anxiety from a mild-moderate to severe scale (Yuliani & Aini, 2020). Increased anxiety of pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the problems that needs special attention. Prenatal yoga is one way to reduce anxiety before childbirth. Methodology: This study is a Literature Review from several journals (Google Scholar and PubMed) with a time span of 2019 to 2021. Research findings: Increased anxiety of pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic is caused by social restrictions including health services. Many restrictions on almost all routine services including maternal and neonatal health services such as pregnant women being reluctant to go to the puskesmas or other health care facilities for fear of contracting the COVID-19 virus (Veftisia et al., 2020). There is only one psychological problem for pregnant women in this study, namely anxiety. So do not analyze other psychological problems. Conclusions: Some of the anxiety factors for pregnant women facing childbirth in the COVID-19 pandemic era are work status, knowledge, maternal age, economic status, fear of being infected with the COVID-19 virus, and concerns about pregnancy itself and childbirth. To reduce maternal anxiety in the midst of the current pandemic situation, interventions that can be carried out even within the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic situation are needed, one of which is prenatal yoga.