Physical exercises during pregnancy: reasons for non-adherence
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This study aimed to identify the reasons for the practice of physical exercise during pregnancy, so that health professionals who participate in prenatal practice can be able to identify and attenuate these limiting factors. This is an integrative review, whose selection criteria were full-text papers available online in Portuguese, English and Spanish; published and indexed in databases Scielo, Medline, Lilacs, Cochrane Library and Science Direct databases, in the period 2006-2016, that presented the variables related to the lack of physical exercise during the habitual risk gestation. Fitfy-six papers were analyzed, from which were retrieved variables classified as intrapersonal factors, interpersonal processes, environmental factors, and public policies. Findings related to intrapersonal factors and interpersonal processes predominated. This fact indicates the greater amount of barriers is related to an element intrinsically related to the pregnant women and their relations with family members, friends, health professionals, and society, with who they live, has been educated and interact daily.
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