Primary healthcare professionals' role in monitoring infant growth: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Excessive weight gain in infancy is an established risk for childhood obesity. Primary healthcare professionals have regular contact with infants and are well placed to monitor their growth. This review explores primary healthcare professionals' practice in monitoring growth for infants from birth to 2 years, addressing assessment methods, practitioner confidence and interventions for unhealthy weight gain. Reviewers searched four databases for studies of primary healthcare professionals working in high-income countries that reported on practice monitoring infant growth. Thirty-six eligible studies documented health professionals' practice with infants. While most clinicians regularly weighed and measured infants, some did not record measurements comprehensively. Growth monitoring occurred

SUBMITTER: Rossiter C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607852 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature