The Effect of Dance Pregnancy on Abdominal Recti Diastasis in Pregnant Women at BPM Sleman Regency

Background: The condition of rectus abdominis muscle separation can occur in 30% to 70% of pregnant women and the possibility of abdominal recti diastasis condition persists after a period of pregnancy in 35% to 60% of women. Abdominal recti diastasis can be a problem in the abdominal muscles after childbirth such as psychological problems, cosmetic disorders and physical problems such as back pain, protrusion in the abdominal wall, weakness in the abdominal wall and decreased abdominal muscle strength. There are various kinds of mild physical exercise that can be done by pregnant women such as a combination of upright movements, pelvic movements, back massage, and partner support called dance pregnancy. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of dance pregnancy on diastasis recti in pregnant women Methods: This research used quasi-experimental design with a non-randomized pretest-posttest group design. The number of samples in the study were 30 respondents with a division of 15 respondents in the experimental group and 15 in the non-experimental group. The sampling technique was accidental sampling. Analysis of the data used the t test. Results: The T test results > t table (2,239 > 2,048) and p values was less than 0.05 (p = 0.033