Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Minimizing Stress among Women with Infertility

El -Sayed Ibrahim, Rasha; Hafez Ahmed Hagrasy, Eman; Mohammed  Hassan Ali, Shimaa; Abd Elhaleem Ebraheem Elagamy, Mona

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2021.150264

Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Minimizing Stress among Women with Infertility

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Lecturer at Maternal and Newborn Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

² Lecturer of community health nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University

³ Lecturer in psychiatric Health Nursing department, Faculty of Nursing, Beni Seuif University

⁴ Lecturer of Maternal and neonatal health nursing department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt

10.21608/ejhc.2021.150264

Abstract

Infertility harms women's relationship with family and friends, it is affected the relationship < /div>
between the couple's sexual relationship and cause stress. Progressive muscle relaxation is
considered one of the common methods used to minimize stress. So the study was aimed to
determine the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation on minimizing stress among women
with infertility. Subjects and method: A quasi-experimental research design with a pretest-posttest
was utilized on a purposive sample of 70 women who randomly was divided into two groups, from
a population of 386 women in six-months, from the beginning of September 2019 to the end of
February 2020, who attended at the obstetric clinic at Bani-Suif University Hospital, Egypt. Two
tools were utilized to collect data in this study: (1) a socio-demographic and fertility history
structured interview schedule, (2) Newton's infertility stress questionnaire was used for data
collection. After assessing and evaluating stress levels, the Progressive muscle relaxation technique
was implemented in the intervention group. Results: t-test indicated that there were significant
differences in stress scores between the two groups after the intervention (p < 0.05) of the
Progressive muscle relaxation technique. The stress means the score was higher in the control group < /div>
compared to the intervention group. Conclusion: Progressive muscle relaxation technique was
effective in minimizing the stress score among infertile women as alternative medicine method.
Recommendations: Providing health education program to pregnant women progressive muscle
relaxation technique that they can help in providing support.

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