Maternal diet quality trajectories from pregnancy to 3.5 years postpartum and associated maternal factors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study examined maternal diet quality trajectories from pregnancy to 3.5 years postpartum and associated maternal factors.

Methods

Data of 473 Australian women from the Healthy Beginnings Trial were used. A food frequency questionnaire collected dietary intake in pregnancy and 1, 2 and 3.5 years postpartum. Diet quality scores were calculated using the 2013 Dietary Guideline Index (DGI-2013) and RESIDential Environments Guideline Index (RDGI). Group-based trajectory modelling identified diet quality trajectories from pregnancy to 3.5 years postpartum. Multivariable logistic regression investigated factors associated with maternal diet quality trajectories.

Results

Two stable trajectories of low or high diet quality were identified for the DGI-2013 and RDGI

SUBMITTER: Sexton-Dhamu MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11329599 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature