<![CDATA[Physical readiness in late pregnancy is relevant to maternaladaptation, mobility, functional capacity, and preparationfor childbirth. Prenatal exercise is generally recommendedfor uncomplicated pregnancy, although the magnitude ofchange in physical readiness depends on exercise content,adherence, baseline condition, and study design. Objectiveto examine the change in physical readiness scores beforeand after prenatal exercise among women in the thirdtrimester using the supplied research dataset. Aquantitative one-group pretest–posttest analysis wasconducted on 30 pregnant women in the third trimester.The dataset contained age, gestational age, parity, andphysical-readiness scores before and after the intervention.Paired t-test was used after checking normality of thepaired differences with the Shapiro–Wilk test. The meandifference, 95% confidence interval, and standardizedwithin-person effect size were also calculated. Participantswere 22–35 years old and 29–35 weeks pregnant; 15 wereprimiparous and 15 multiparous. Mean readiness increasedfrom 47.67 ± 5.01 at pretest to 79.13 ± 5.89 at posttest. Themean increase was 31.47 points (95% CI 30.95–31.98). Thepaired differences were approximately normally distributed(Shapiro–Wilk W=0.940; p=0.091). The paired t-test showeda statistically significant pre–post difference (t(29)=124.62;p<0.001).The results demonstrates a marked improvementin physical-readiness scores after prenatal exercise.]]>
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