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

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1 Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

2 Professor of public health and community medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

3 Professor of public health and community medicine Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

4 Assistant Professor of public health and community medicine Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

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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

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