Fatemeh Islami - Faculty member of Golestan University

Knowledge of the principles of doing proper exercise during pregnancy have always emphasized by professionals, would bring many benefits to both mother and fetus. This cross-sectional study is done to assess the awareness towards the sport activities during pregnancy and some of its associated factors with the field method through using cluster sampling was conducted on 110 pregnant women who were 32 to 40 weeks, healthy and low risk that referred to health centers in Golestan in 2013 (study population) who had no known medical and midwifery disease.Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire with demographic and internal reliability (α = 0.7) by interview. At the end the data were analyzed with descriptive statistics (mean, frequency) and illative (two independent samples T-test, analysis of variance of a variable, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient).The results showed that the average scores of awareness was13.98 ± 99.50. 1.8% of subjects had a very poor awareness, 9% of subjects had poor knowledge, 50.4% of subjects had moderate knowledge, 27% of subjects had good knowledge and 11.8% of subjects were very well aware. There was a significant difference between the age, level of education of subjects and their husbands’ education with sports knowledge. But there was no significant difference between the ethnicity, occupation, and husband`s job with knowledge. The results showed that the majority of pregnant women do not have good knowledge about doing exercise during pregnancy

exercise in pregnancy, belief, Knowledge