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Women’s health and midwifery
Unsupervised home-based exercise training can help improve symptoms of maternal physical discomfort during pregnancy
  1. Lizzie Ette
  1. School of Nursing, University of Hull, Hull, UK
  1. Correspondence to Lizzie Ette; j.ette{at}hull.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104042

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    Commentary on: Weng, M.-H., Chou, H.-C., & Liaw, J.-J. (2024). The effects of unsupervised home-based exercise training during pregnancy: A systematic review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 00, 1–7.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Nurses and midwives working with pregnant women can safely recommend a home exercise plan, preferably a theoretical-based programme of exercise, to improve physical discomfort symptoms during pregnancy;

    • This systematic review suggests that further research is needed to identify and more consistently evidence the benefits of these types of exercise to maternal mental health during pregnancy.

    Context

    Symptoms of physical discomfort, such as sleep disturbance, prenatal back pain and postnatal urinary stress incontinence, are commonly associated with pregnancy. Strategies to support women be relieved of, minimise or better manage these symptoms are a welcome approach to improving women’s quality of life whilst pregnant. Exercise is one of many lifestyle factors that can positively impact on quality of life during pregnancy.1 In conjunction with other lifestyle measures, prescribed home exercise programmes, undertaken independently of a coach or trainer, can have an …

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.