Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain
Soliman, A., Hassan, A., Fahmy, H., E. Abdelsalam., A. (2021). Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain. EKB Journal Management System, 27(4), 577-588. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2019.13936.1270
Al-Zahraa Soliman; Alsayed Hassan; Howaida Henary Fahmy; Amira E. Abdelsalam.. "Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain". EKB Journal Management System, 27, 4, 2021, 577-588. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2019.13936.1270
Soliman, A., Hassan, A., Fahmy, H., E. Abdelsalam., A. (2021). 'Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain', EKB Journal Management System, 27(4), pp. 577-588. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2019.13936.1270
Soliman, A., Hassan, A., Fahmy, H., E. Abdelsalam., A. Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain. EKB Journal Management System, 2021; 27(4): 577-588. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2019.13936.1270

Effect of Nutritional Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women towards Dietary habits, Physical activity and Optimal Gestational Weight Gain

Zagazig University Medical Journal
Article 161, Volume 27, Issue 4, July 2021, Page 577-588  XML PDF (447.05 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/zumj.2019.13936.1270
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Authors
Al-Zahraa Soliman email 1; Alsayed Hassan2; Howaida Henary Fahmy3; Amira E. Abdelsalam.4
1Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt
2Professor of public health and community medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
3Professor of public health and community medicine Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
4Assistant Professor of public health and community medicine Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
Abstract
Background: Obesity has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a pandemic nutritional disorder. Egypt has the highest levels of overweight and obesity in Africa with 44% and 39% respectively.
Aim of the study: To assess the effect of the nutritional health education program on changing knowledge and attitude towards nutrition of mothers during pregnancy and to identify its role on gaining optimal weight.
Subjects and Methods: An interventional study (pre-posttest), in Zagazig University Antenatal Care Outpatient Clinic. Patients' criteria: 115 pregnant women in the first trimester, aged 18-35 years, Nonsmokers, take no medication and don’t have any chronic medical disorder with Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2. Procedures: Data collection through a questionnaire of three parts; women’s characteristics, pretest and posttest, the health education sessions were applied on the pregnant women and the change was detected.
Results: There was statistically significant difference in total knowledge from (66.5±28.9) to (117.6±25.3) and total attitude from (3.3±2.1) to (9.5±2.8) scores in the pregnant women after the nutritional education sessions with improvement from 45.5% to 80.5% and from 27.3% to 79.2% in knowledge and attitude respectively (p-value
Keywords
weight gain; Pregnant women; nutritional education sessions
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