Targeting obstetric providers in interventions for obesity and gestational weight gain: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providers need to be comfortable addressing obesity and gestational weight gain so they may give appropriate care; however, health care providers lack guidelines for the most effective educational strategies to assist in providing optimal care.

Objective

To identify studies that involved the obstetric provider in interventions for either the perinatal management of obesity and/or gestational weight gain in a systematic review.

Search strategy

A keyword search of databases was performed up to April 2017.

Selection criteria

Obstetric providers who participated in an intervention with the aim to change a provider's clinical practice, knowledge, and/or satisfaction with the intervention in relation to the perinatal management of obesity or gestational we

SUBMITTER: Kominiarek MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173456 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature