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Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy

OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is a special period of increased nutritional needs during which conscious nutritional support is required. Insufficient and imbalanced nutrition in this period of life causes serious conditions that affect both child and mother. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship betw...

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Autores principales: Şenol Eren, Nihan, Şencan, İrfan, Aksoy, Hilal, Koç, Esra Meltem, Kasım, İsmail, Kahveci, Rabia, Samur, Gülhan, Özkara, Adem
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Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28913050
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjod.79923
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author Şenol Eren, Nihan
Şencan, İrfan
Aksoy, Hilal
Koç, Esra Meltem
Kasım, İsmail
Kahveci, Rabia
Samur, Gülhan
Özkara, Adem
author_facet Şenol Eren, Nihan
Şencan, İrfan
Aksoy, Hilal
Koç, Esra Meltem
Kasım, İsmail
Kahveci, Rabia
Samur, Gülhan
Özkara, Adem
author_sort Şenol Eren, Nihan
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description OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is a special period of increased nutritional needs during which conscious nutritional support is required. Insufficient and imbalanced nutrition in this period of life causes serious conditions that affect both child and mother. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between pregnancy and nutrition/nutritional habits during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive study, a questionnaire was conducted on a voluntary basis to pregnant women who were admitted to the Pregnancy Outpatient Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital. Questions about general information, pregnancy-related information, thoughts and knowledge about breastfeeding, nutritional habits, and meal frequency were asked to pregnant women. Three hundred fourteen questionnaires were assessed in the study. SPSS for Windows Version 16.0 and MS-Excel 2007 were used for statistical evaluations. P<0.05 was accepted as statistical significance. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant relationship between pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and number of pregnancies; level of education and income levels; number of children and history of caesarian section as an additional problem within previous pregnancies. The change of nutritional habits during pregnancy was examined; we found that consumption of fruits (51%) and vegetables (40.8%) increased the most, while intake of tea (26.1%) and redmeat (21%) mainly decreased during pregnancy. It was found that during pregnancy 20.4% of pregnant women had never consumed fish, 13.1% abstained from red meat, and 12.4% excluded white meat from their diet. CONCLUSIONS: We believe that this study will help to raise awareness about adequate and balanced nutrition during pregnancy and to define special nutritional recommendations.
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spelling pubmed-55583832017-09-14 Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy Şenol Eren, Nihan Şencan, İrfan Aksoy, Hilal Koç, Esra Meltem Kasım, İsmail Kahveci, Rabia Samur, Gülhan Özkara, Adem Turk J Obstet Gynecol Clinical Investigation OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is a special period of increased nutritional needs during which conscious nutritional support is required. Insufficient and imbalanced nutrition in this period of life causes serious conditions that affect both child and mother. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between pregnancy and nutrition/nutritional habits during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive study, a questionnaire was conducted on a voluntary basis to pregnant women who were admitted to the Pregnancy Outpatient Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital. Questions about general information, pregnancy-related information, thoughts and knowledge about breastfeeding, nutritional habits, and meal frequency were asked to pregnant women. Three hundred fourteen questionnaires were assessed in the study. SPSS for Windows Version 16.0 and MS-Excel 2007 were used for statistical evaluations. P<0.05 was accepted as statistical significance. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant relationship between pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and number of pregnancies; level of education and income levels; number of children and history of caesarian section as an additional problem within previous pregnancies. The change of nutritional habits during pregnancy was examined; we found that consumption of fruits (51%) and vegetables (40.8%) increased the most, while intake of tea (26.1%) and redmeat (21%) mainly decreased during pregnancy. It was found that during pregnancy 20.4% of pregnant women had never consumed fish, 13.1% abstained from red meat, and 12.4% excluded white meat from their diet. CONCLUSIONS: We believe that this study will help to raise awareness about adequate and balanced nutrition during pregnancy and to define special nutritional recommendations. Galenos Publishing 2015-06 2015-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5558383/ /pubmed/28913050 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjod.79923 Text en © Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published by Galenos Publishing House. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Şenol Eren, Nihan
Şencan, İrfan
Aksoy, Hilal
Koç, Esra Meltem
Kasım, İsmail
Kahveci, Rabia
Samur, Gülhan
Özkara, Adem
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title_full Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy
title_fullStr Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy
title_short Evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy
title_sort evaluation of dietary habits during pregnancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28913050
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjod.79923
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