THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN'S PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND THE SPEED OF BIRTH DELIVERY WHILE GIVING BIRTH

• Main Authors: Yu-hsuan Lin, 林宇軒
• Other Authors: Yi-Li Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64684659549568627393

碩士 === 國立臺灣體育學院 === 休閒運動管理研究所 === 91 === Abstract 　　The purpose of this study was to research if women's physical activities before she got pregnant, and after being pregnant will have any impacts on her birth delivery while she was giving birth. This study was to use questionnaire to targeting on demography, physical activities and the process of birth delivery. People are investigated are those who had virginal delivery without any illness, healthy ladies checked by physicians from the En-Chu-Kong Hospital. All the results can be useful for those women who plan to be pregnant in the future. The total numbers of questionnaires were giving to two hundred and eighty people to answer. And the valid ones were two hundred and thirty-eight with eighty-five percent accurate ratio. All the data of the valid samples were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent t test, one-way ANOVA and Docan posthoc. The findings were as following: 1. Women’s physical activities got changed the patten before she got pregnant and after she got pregnant. Usually women tend to exercise more often after they were pregnant. The most popular activities that pregnant women do were "taking a walk" and "shopping" in this study. 2. Physical activities did not have any impacts on birth delivery. However, the multigravida for the first stage of birth delivery process, a housewife can do quicker than a professional, working lady. 3. As the second stage of birth delivery, the primipara will have major difference on delivery speed depending on her physically exercise between her 3 stages of pregnancy. The women who do exercise frequency can give birth delivery quickly than those who do not exercise at all. 4. BMI plays an important role on pregnancy. When the pregnant women's BMI was "higher", the women's delivery will slow down than those who have "normal" ones.