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    Perception and practice of Postnatal Exercise among Women attending secondary health facility in North-Central, Nigeria.
    (Department of Human Kinetic, University of Ilorin, Ilorin., 2019) Onasoga, O.A; Olowolafe, E.O; Aluko, J.O; Yusuf, S.B
    Post-partum women do not engage in exercises despite its beneficial effects. Therefore, therefore, this study was designed to determine the perception and practice of postnatal exercise among postnatal women attending secondary health facility in North-Central, Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was used for the study and purposive sampling technique was used to select the 204 postnatal women who were willing to participate in the study. Data were collected using self structured questionnaires. Data were analyzed using the statistical product and service solution (SPSS) version 24.The results were presented using both descriptive and inferential statistics with level of significance set at 0.05. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (92.6%) had positive perception regarding benefits of post natal exercise despite their poor practice (66.2%). The major barriers to practice of postnatal exercise identified were lack of exercise partner (81.4%), lack of knowledge about postnatal exercise (70.1%), lack of encourage from family or friends to exercise (63.3%), lack of access to appropriate and affordable exercise facilities (52.0%) and child care (51.0%). Therefore, adequate information should be given about postnatal exercise to women during antenatal period, with emphasize place on benefits, when to start and how to do the various exercises, so that even without the encouragement from friend and family, postnatal women would be motivated to engage in physical exercises during postnatal period.