Immediate stress reduction effects of yoga during pregnancy: One group pre–post test

Women and Birth

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages e82-e88

  Kusaka, Momoko ^a   Matsuzaki, Masayo ^a   Shiraishi, Mie ^a   Haruna, Megumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise; Pregnant women; Saliva; Stress, Physiological; Stress, Psychological

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; SALIVA LEVEL; YOGA; CHEMISTRY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SECRETION (PROCESS); THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALPHA-AMYLASES; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; JAPAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREGNANT WOMEN; SALIVA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOGA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963506640     PISSN: 18715192     EISSN: 18781799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2016.04.003     Document Type: Article

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