Prevention and management of excessive gestational weight gain: a survey of overweight and obese pregnant women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive gestational weight gain is associated with adverse infant, childhood and maternal outcomes and research to develop interventions to address this issue is ongoing. The views of women on gestational weight gain and the resources they would consider helpful in addressing this are however largely unknown. This survey aimed to determine the views of newly pregnant women, living in areas of social disadvantage, on 1) their current body weight and potential gestational weight gain and 2) the resources or interventions they would consider helpful in preventing excessive gestational weight gain.

Methods

A convenience sample of overweight and obese pregnant women living in Fife, UK, were invited to complete a short anonymised questionnaire at their 12 week booking

SUBMITTER: Leslie WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3616937 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature