Risk factors for inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain during pregnancy among women

IF 2.6 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

Midwifery Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI:10.1016/j.midw.2025.104345

Ju Sun Cho , Sook Jung Kang

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aimed to identify psychosocial predictors of inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain among Korean pregnant women.

Methods

Data were collected through an online survey of healthy adult Korean women who were at least 37 weeks pregnant. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify predictors of GWG.

Result

Among 139 participants, 42.4 % had inadequate and 20.9 % had excessive gestational weight gain. Quitting smoking for pregnancy (OR = 7.04) was found to be a risk factor for excessive GWG, while perceiving oneself as thin (OR = 0.18), high body image satisfaction (OR = 0.54), and negative attitudes toward weight gain (OR = 0.88) were protective factors for excessive GWG.

Conclusion

During the first prenatal care visit, smoking history, body image perception, satisfaction, and attitudes toward weight gain, which were identified in this study as predictors of gestational weight gain, should be assessed to identify pregnant women with risk factors. These individuals can be managed in nurse led weight management groups, which may help prevent excessive weight gain during pregnancy and improve pregnancy outcomes.

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Midwifery 医学-护理

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

7.40%

发文量

221

审稿时长

13.4 weeks

期刊介绍： Midwifery publishes the latest peer reviewed international research to inform the safety, quality, outcomes and experiences of pregnancy, birth and maternity care for childbearing women, their babies and families. The journal’s publications support midwives and maternity care providers to explore and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes informed by best available evidence. Midwifery provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the publication, dissemination and discussion of advances in evidence, controversies and current research, and promotes continuing education through publication of systematic and other scholarly reviews and updates. Midwifery articles cover the cultural, clinical, psycho-social, sociological, epidemiological, education, managerial, workforce, organizational and technological areas of practice in preconception, maternal and infant care. The journal welcomes the highest quality scholarly research that employs rigorous methodology. Midwifery is a leading international journal in midwifery and maternal health with a current impact factor of 1.861 (© Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2016) and employs a double-blind peer review process.