Midwives and nutrition education during pregnancy: A literature review

Arrish, Jamila; Yeatman, Heather; Williamson, Moira

doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2013.02.003

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“…Despite the existence of such guidelines, the extent to which healthcare professionals adhere to them is currently unknown. In Australia and New Zealand, nutrition education is not required to be taught as part of midwifery degrees [11], and the nutrition education needs of midwives is under researched [12]. Furthermore, recent Australian research indicates that pregnant women have poor knowledge, at least for some areas of nutrition, and that women perceive advice provided by their healthcare providers, either written or verbal, to be insufficient [13,14].…”

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Nutrition Advice During Pregnancy: Do Women Receive it and Can Health Professionals Provide it?

Lucas

Charlton

Yeatman

2014

Matern Child Health J

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A healthy diet during pregnancy is essential for normal growth and development of the foetus. Pregnant women may obtain nutrition information from a number of sources but evidence regarding the adequacy and extent of this information is sparse. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify sources of nutrition information accessed by pregnant women, their perceived needs for nutrition education, the perceptions of healthcare providers about nutrition education in pregnancy, and to assess the effectiveness of public health programs that aim to improve nutritional practices. The Scopus data base was searched during January, 2013 and in February 2014 to access both qualitative and quantitative studies published between 2002 and 2014 which focused on healthy pregnant women and their healthcare providers in developed countries. Articles were excluded if they focused on the needs of women with medical conditions, including obesity, gestational diabetes or malnutrition. Of 506 articles identified by the search terms, 25 articles were deemed to be eligible for inclusion. Generally, women were not receiving adequate nutrition education during pregnancy. Although healthcare practitioners perceived nutrition education to be important, barriers to providing education to clients included lack of time, lack of resources and lack of relevant training. Further well designed studies are needed to identify the most effective nutrition education strategies to improve nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviours for women during antenatal care.

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Nutrition Advice During Pregnancy: Do Women Receive it and Can Health Professionals Provide it?

Lucas

Charlton

Yeatman

2014

Matern Child Health J

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“…(16) en que existen pocos estudios disponibles sobre esta cuestión en la literatura especializada internacional. En cuanto a la percepción de los consejos nutricionales por parte de las embarazadas, se verbalizan dudas, frustración, miedos y ambigüedades ante la información recibida por parte de las matronas (16,17,25,28,29), lo que conlleva que las mujeres recurran a la búsqueda de información por su propia cuenta. Una de las principales carencias percibidas por las gestantes fue recibir consejos escasos y centrados en temas de seguridad alimentaria (24), así como orientaciones poco específicas o aportadas en un momento demasiado avanzado de la gestación (18,26), cuando los intereses de las gestantes están ya más centrados en otros aspectos como la salud del feto (22).…”

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“…El gran reto al que se enfrentan las matronas no es tanto dar consejos, sino saber cómo hacerlo para no herir sentimientos en la embarazada, conseguir cambios de comportamiento y no generar frustración, por ejemplo, ante lo que puede y no puede comer. Además, dichas profesionales expresan carecer del tiempo y de los conocimientos necesarios para asesorar a la embarazada, refieren que han recibido poca capacitación durante su formación en temas relacionados con la nutrición a la vez que aseguran tener escasos recursos educativos a la hora de abordar individualmente el caso de gestantes con alteraciones nutricionales (16,17). Cabe considerar que el embarazo es un momento de la vida de las mujeres en el que suelen estar más receptivas ante los consejos nutricionales, de manera que pueden cambiar los estilos de vida y mejorar su calidad de vida (18).…”

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“…De esta forma, mejorar los recursos en la educación de las embarazadas ha mostrado tener un resultado positivo en su control nutricional (19,20). Sin embargo, existe escasa literatura especializada que investigue los conocimientos que las matronas tienen sobre la nutrición en las gestantes y las estrategias educativas que las matronas utilizan para tratar esta temática (16,21). El propósito de este trabajo es analizar los principales estudios sobre las percepciones de las embarazadas acerca de los consejos nutricionales e identificar las estrategias utilizadas por las matronas para su implementación.…”

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Percepción de embarazadas y matronas acerca de los consejos nutricionales durante la gestación

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Palabras clave:Mujeres embarazadas. Matronas. Consejos de salud. Nutrición prenatal. Key words:Pregnant women. Midwives. Health councils. Prenatal nutrition. AbstractBackground: Women's nutritional status, the suitable profi t of weight and the ingestion of certain nutrients may have an important infl uence in health both for the mother and newborn in a short and long term. World Health Organization gives a number of nutritional recommendations which are transmitted during the pregnant women antenatal care by their midwives. Objectives: To analyze the main studies on the understanding of the pregnant women about the nutritional received councils and to identify the strategies used by the midwives for theirs implementation. Methodology: Literature review for low risk pregnant's conducted by midwives and receiving nutritional councils in Web of Science (WOS), CINAHL and PubMed. Using descriptors such as: pregnancy, pregnant, midwife, counselling, nutrition and their different combinations. The criteria incorporation was original article and review written in English, Spanish or Portuguese of last ten years and available in complete. Results: 184 references were found. Finally, only 11 focused on the issue addressed. There are multiple items with nutritional advice in pregnancy but a few that include educational strategies implemented by midwives to address dietary and nutritional recommendations and usefulness. Conclusion: Only a few studies researchs the midwives' knowledge about nutrition in pregnancy and the councils that they transmit to pregnants. In the same way, not many papers treats the pregnant perception about nutritional councils.

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“…However, a literature review to explore the extent to which the role of midwives in nutrition education during pregnancy has been reported led to a conclusion that there is limited research available on the role of midwives in nutrition education during pregnancy. The authors therefore recommended that more research is required to explore the educational needs of midwives to enhance nutritional care of pregnant women (Arrish et al, 2014).…”

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Nutrition education during pregnancy: Are final year midwifery trainees ready to offer this service?

Asamoah¹,

Ampofo²

2017

Int. J. Nurs. Midwifery

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Midwives provide most of the maternity services, including nutritional counseling and education services. In Ghana, there is scarce evidence regarding the competency of midwives in providing sound nutritional advice to pregnant women. Therefore, the aim of this research was to assess the nutritional knowledge levels of final year midwifery students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted, in which 562 final year midwifery students from six Midwifery Training Institutions answered 20 multiple-choice questions on nutritional-related issues during pregnancy. An average score of 9.8 (approximately 49%) was obtained by the respondents. Most (>70%) of the respondents were knowledgeable of the ideal time to start taking folic acid when planning to be pregnant and the effects of high alcohol intake during pregnancy. Key areas that require attention included recommended weight gain during pregnancy, sources and functions of micronutrients, such as folic acid, iron, vitamin C, calcium and iodine during pregnancy, and nutritional management of pregnancy-related conditions like pregnancy-induced hypertension, nausea and heartburn. The findings of this study support other reports that midwives need more training in human nutrition; and it has important implications for professional planning of curricula for midwifery education.

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Midwives and nutrition education during pregnancy: A literature review

Cited by 86 publications

References 38 publications

Nutrition Advice During Pregnancy: Do Women Receive it and Can Health Professionals Provide it?

Nutrition Advice During Pregnancy: Do Women Receive it and Can Health Professionals Provide it?

Percepción de embarazadas y matronas acerca de los consejos nutricionales durante la gestación

Nutrition education during pregnancy: Are final year midwifery trainees ready to offer this service?

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