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Evaluating Provider Advice and Women’s Beliefs on Total Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with complications for both mother and child. Minority women are at increased risk for excessive GWG, yet are underrepresented in published weight control interventions. To inform future interventions, we examined the prevalence and accuracy of p...

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Autores principales: Arinze, Nkiruka V., Karp, Sharon M., Gesell, Sabina B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25649967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0162-8
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description Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with complications for both mother and child. Minority women are at increased risk for excessive GWG, yet are underrepresented in published weight control interventions. To inform future interventions, we examined the prevalence and accuracy of provider advice and its association with personal beliefs about necessary maternal weight gain among predominantly Latina pregnant women. Secondary analysis examining baseline data (N = 123) from a healthy lifestyle randomized controlled trial conducted in and urban area of the South East. Only 23.6 % of women reported being told how much weight to gain during pregnancy; although 58.6 % received advice that met Institute of Medicine recommendations. Concordance of mothers’ personal weight gain target with clinical recommendations varied by mothers’ pre-pregnancy weight status [χ ((4))(2) = 9.781, p = 0.044]. Findings suggest the need for prenatal providers of low-income, minority women to engage patients in shaping healthy weight gain targets as a precursor to preventing excessive GWG and its complications.
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spelling pubmed-47158342016-01-22 Evaluating Provider Advice and Women’s Beliefs on Total Weight Gain During Pregnancy Arinze, Nkiruka V. Karp, Sharon M. Gesell, Sabina B. J Immigr Minor Health Brief Communication Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with complications for both mother and child. Minority women are at increased risk for excessive GWG, yet are underrepresented in published weight control interventions. To inform future interventions, we examined the prevalence and accuracy of provider advice and its association with personal beliefs about necessary maternal weight gain among predominantly Latina pregnant women. Secondary analysis examining baseline data (N = 123) from a healthy lifestyle randomized controlled trial conducted in and urban area of the South East. Only 23.6 % of women reported being told how much weight to gain during pregnancy; although 58.6 % received advice that met Institute of Medicine recommendations. Concordance of mothers’ personal weight gain target with clinical recommendations varied by mothers’ pre-pregnancy weight status [χ ((4))(2) = 9.781, p = 0.044]. Findings suggest the need for prenatal providers of low-income, minority women to engage patients in shaping healthy weight gain targets as a precursor to preventing excessive GWG and its complications. Springer US 2015-02-04 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4715834/ /pubmed/25649967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0162-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715834/
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