Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises During Pregnancy
Restless Legs Syndrome
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Restless Legs Syndrome focused on measuring Progressive relaxation exercises, Sleep quality, Relaxation music, Pregnancy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: diagnosed with RLS by a physician 27 to 34 weeks gestation aged 20 to 35 years able to understand and answer questions in the scale and forms having a CD player Exclusion Criteria: have vision-hearing problems chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, etc.) any psychiatric diagnosis multiple pregnancy rheumatic disease (to avoid difficulties in assessing the severity of RLS) lumbar hernia and low back pain complaints (to avoid difficulties in assessing the severity of RLS) varicose veins in the legs (to avoid difficulties in assessing the severity of RLS)
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Sham Comparator
No Intervention
Progressive muscle relaxation
Relaxation music
Control
A CD recorded by the Turkish Psychological Association was provided to explain relaxation techniques to Progressive muscle relaxation group (PMR ) participants. The CD contains relaxation exercises instructions and there is relaxing music in the background. This CD consists of two parts. The first part(11 minutes) gives short information about the content and how exercises should be done. It consists of information about deep relaxation. In the second part, there are 27 minutes of relaxation exercises accompanied by command with background music. PMR exercise consists of four stages: stretching-relaxation (1st stage -approximately 20 minutes), autogenic training - only relaxation (2nd stage approximately 10 minutes), deep breathing training-breathing relaxation (3rd stage approximately 3-4 minutes), rapid relaxation (4th stage--a few seconds).
A CD recorded by the Turkish Psychological Association was provided to RM group participants. It consists of 30 minutes relaxing music only. The participant was asked to just listen to music with without working in a private room.
In this group, participant were assessed without any other intervention.