Positive lifestyle changes around the time of pregnancy: a cross-sectional study

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dc.contributor.authorO'Keeffe, Linda M.
dc.contributor.authorDahly, Darren L.
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Marion
dc.contributor.authorGreene, Richard A.
dc.contributor.authorHarrington, Janas M.
dc.contributor.authorCorcoran, Paul
dc.contributor.authorKearney, Patricia M.
dc.contributor.funderHealth Research Boarden
dc.contributor.funderMedical Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-27T09:50:57Z
dc.date.available2017-02-27T09:50:57Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-06
dc.date.updated2017-02-27T09:40:16Z
dc.description.abstractObjectives: To examine the prevalence of positive lifestyle behaviours before and during pregnancy in Ireland. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Population-based study in Ireland. Participants: A total of 718 women of predominantly Caucasian origin from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), Ireland, were included. Primary and secondary outcome measures: Positive lifestyle behaviour changes before and during pregnancy in Ireland on alcohol consumption, smoking, folate use and nutrition. Results: Of 1212 women surveyed, 718 (59%) responded. 26% were adherent to all three recommendations on alcohol consumption, smoking and folate use before pregnancy. This increased to 39% for the same three behaviours during pregnancy, with greater increases in adherence observed among women with the lowest adherence before pregnancy. Age, education and ethnicity gaps in adherence before pregnancy appeared to narrow during pregnancy. Adherence to all seven food pyramid guidelines was less than 1% overall, and less than 1% of participants met all four micronutrient guidelines on vitamin D, folate, calcium and iron intake around the time of pregnancy. Conclusions: Low levels of healthy lifestyle behaviours before pregnancy and low levels of positive lifestyle behaviours during pregnancy demonstrate an urgent need for increased clinical and public health efforts to target deleterious health behaviours before, during and after pregnancy.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, Cork; Cork University Maternity Hospital; Health Research Board, Ireland (HRB Grant Number PHD/2007/16); (Population Health Scientist fellowship (MR/M014509/1))en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Keeffe, L. M., Dahly, D. L., Murphy, M., Greene, R. A., Harrington, J. M., Corcoran, P. and Kearney, P. M. (2016) 'Positive lifestyle changes around the time of pregnancy: a cross-sectional study', BMJ Open, 6(5) e010233. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010233en
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010233
dc.identifier.endpagee010233-6en
dc.identifier.issn2044-6055
dc.identifier.journaltitleBmj Openen
dc.identifier.startpagee010233-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3695
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBMJ Publishing Groupen
dc.rights© 2016, The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
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dc.subjectEpidemiologyen
dc.subjectBehavioursen
dc.subjectPregnancyen
dc.subjectAlcoholen
dc.subjectNutrition and dieteticsen
dc.subjectSmokingen
dc.subjectAssessment monitoring-systemen
dc.subjectAlcohol consumptionen
dc.subjectProspective cohorten
dc.subjectResponse ratesen
dc.subjectPreterm birthen
dc.subjectRisken
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectAgeen
dc.subjectMortalityen
dc.titlePositive lifestyle changes around the time of pregnancy: a cross-sectional studyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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