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Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of gentle prenatal yoga toward depression and abnormal serotonin hormone levels in pregnant women aged <20 and >35 years old., Method: This study was conducted at Bara Baraya Health Center, Antang Health Center, Kapasa Health Center, and Mamajang Health Center. The applied research design in this study was a quasi-experiment with a non-equivalent control group design approach. Samples were selected using a purposive sample technique. The instrument used was the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) questionnaire. The number of samples in this study was 24 respondents divided into 2, 12 in the intervention group and 12 in the control group. Sample criteria in this study were pregnant women aged <20 and >35 years old, having been in trimester II-III with the gestational age of ≥20 to <31 weeks, and not having complications in pregnancy., Results: The mean values for the intervention group were 6.50 in the pre-test to the mid-test and 6.50 in the mid-test to the post-test. Meanwhile, the mean values for the control group were 5.61 in the pre-test to the mid-test and 4.50 in the mid-test to the post-test. This indicated that the intervention group experienced a significantly reduced level of depression based on the BD-II (Beck Depression Inventory-II) scores when compared to the control group. Furthermore, based on the comparison of the post-test data between the intervention group and the control group, it was obtained the p-value of 0.005 (α<0.05)., Conclusion: There were differences in BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory-II) scores between the intervention group and the control group after receiving prenatal gentle yoga treatment., (Copyright © 2021 SESPAS. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of gentle prenatal yoga on the anxiety problem in primigravida and multigravida pregnant women., Method: This study was conducted at Bara-Baraya Health Center, Antang Health Center, Kapasa Health Center, and Mamajang Health Center. The applied research design in this study was a quasi-experiment with a non-equivalent control group design approach. Samples were selected using a purposive sample technique. Furthermore, the instrument used was the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) questionnaire. The number of samples in this study was 24 respondents divided into two groups, 12 in the intervention group and 12 in the control group. Meanwhile, the criteria of samples in this study were pregnant women in the first to fifth pregnancy, having been in trimester II-III with the gestational age of ≥20-30 weeks, and not having complications in pregnancy., Results: the HARS scores in the intervention group showed that the mean rank of the pre-test was 23.75, In the mid-test, it was 20.00, and in the post-test, it was 16.00. Meanwhile, in the control group, its mean rank was 23.50, mid-test it was 21.58, and the post-test it was 20.41 showed that the intervention group experienced a significant decrease in anxiety levels. From the results of the Mann Whitney test, the intervention group p=0.001<(α 0.05) showed that there were significant changes., Conclusion: There were differences in HARS (Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale) scores between the intervention and control groups before and after a gentle prenatal yoga treatment., (Copyright © 2021 SESPAS. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)