Wendy Lawrence, Christina Vogel, Sofia Strömmer, Taylor Morris, Bethan Treadgold, Daniella Watson, Kate Hart, Karen McGill, Julia Hammond, Nicholas C Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel Inskip, Janis Baird, Mary Barker
{"title":"How can we best use opportunities provided by routine maternity care to engage women in improving their diets and health?","authors":"Wendy Lawrence, Christina Vogel, Sofia Strömmer, Taylor Morris, Bethan Treadgold, Daniella Watson, Kate Hart, Karen McGill, Julia Hammond, Nicholas C Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel Inskip, Janis Baird, Mary Barker","doi":"10.1111/mcn.12900","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mcn.12900","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pregnancy provides motivation for women to improve their diets and increase their physical activity. Opportunistic brief interventions delivered as part of routine primary care have produced improvements in patients' health behaviour. Consequently, there have been calls for midwives to use contacts during pregnancy in this way. This study explored the experiences of pregnant women and research midwives/nurses of a brief intervention called Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) being delivered as part of a randomised control trial, assessing the acceptability and feasibility of including this intervention in routine maternity care. Three research questions were addressed using mixed methods to produce four datasets: face-to-face interviews with participants, a focus group with the HCS-trained midwives/nurses, case reports of participants receiving HCS and audio-recordings of mid-pregnancy telephone calls to the women which produced midwife/nurse HCS competency scores. Midwives/nurses used their HCS to support women to make plans for change and set goals. Women welcomed the opportunity to address their own health and well-being as distinct from that of their baby. Midwives/nurses were competent in using the skills and saw healthy conversations as an effective means of raising issues of diet and physical activity. Recent extension of maternity appointment times provides ideal opportunities to incorporate a brief intervention to support behaviour change. Incorporating HCS training into midwifery education and continuing professional development would facilitate this. HCS is a scalable, brief intervention with the potential to improve the diets and physical activity levels of women during pregnancy, and hence the health of themselves and their babies.</p>","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"47 1","pages":"e12900"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/mcn.12900","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74362770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Child’s Body Size at Birth on Infant and Child Mortality in India","authors":"B. Ram, S. Ram, Awdhesh Yadav","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00009-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00009-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"77 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00009-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42080753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Incidence of Homelessness in Canada is a Population-Level Phenomenon: a Comparison of Toronto and Calgary Shelter Use over Time","authors":"D. Dutton, Ali Jadidzadeh","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00013-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00013-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"161 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00013-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44631251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Disparities in the Risk of Potentially Avoidable Hospitalization for Diabetes Mellitus: an Analysis with Linked Census and Hospital Data","authors":"N. Gupta, Dan Lawson Crouse","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00012-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00012-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"145 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00012-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46480124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the Underlying Infant Mortality Rates for Small Populations, Even Those Reporting Zero Infant Deaths: a Case Study of 66 Local Health Areas in British Columbia","authors":"D. Swanson","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00014-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00014-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"173 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47951537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claude Diebolt and Faustine Perrin: Understanding Demographic Transitions: An Overview of French Historical Statistics (Population Economics Series)","authors":"J. May","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00016-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00016-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"201 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00016-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44325534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigrant Health Data Development at Statistics Canada: an Update","authors":"E. Ng","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00015-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00015-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"189 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00015-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43380436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dilemma of Returning: the Liquid Migration of Skilled Spaniards 8 years down the Economic Crisis","authors":"Josefina Domínguez-Mujica, Ramón Díaz-Hernández","doi":"10.1007/s42650-019-00010-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-019-00010-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44334,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Studies in Population","volume":"46 1","pages":"99 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s42650-019-00010-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45171939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}