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T1 Nutritional Education in the Midwife’s Consultation Room
A1 Olloqui Mundet, M. Josefa
A1 Cavia Camarero, María del Mar
A1 Alonso de la Torre, Sara
A1 Carrillo Pérez, Celia
K1 Attitudes
K1 Education
K1 Knowledge
K1 Nutrition
K1 Midwives
K1 Biología molecular
K1 Molecular biology
K1 Alimentos
K1 Food
K1 Educación
K1 Education
AB Evidence of the importance of maternal nutrition during pregnancy is growing, andmidwives are the healthcare professionals in charge of monitoring pregnancy. In the present review,the aim is therefore to look at the relevant contributions on midwifery and the role of midwiferyin the provision of nutritional education. Searches were conducted on three databases—Medline,PubMed Central, and Web of Science—using two key search terms (“nutrition” and “midwives”)and their synonyms, for an extensive set of results. The final selection consisted of 27 originalpapers, most of which concerned the nutritional knowledge of midwives, their training, and theirviews, attitudes, and practices within the field of nutrition. According to the findings, althoughthe midwives considered nutritional education to be part of their role and they agreed on theimportance of nutrition during pregnancy, their knowledge of this topic was poor, perhaps due toinadequate nutritional education during their midwifery training. Academic programs on midwiferymust therefore be reviewed, so as to increase the workload of nutrition-related subjects, in order toreinforce the corresponding knowledge bases of future midwives. In addition, based on the successof the nutritional interventions discussed in the present review, these sorts of initiatives could beof utmost importance to improve the knowledge of practicing midwives. In any case, it must behighlighted that the available evidence discussed in this review was drawn from only a few countriesaround the world. Further studies involving midwives of varied origins are therefore needed. Suchresearch would be of immense assistance in the design of the corresponding nutritional interventionsin the field, so as to improve the health of pregnant women.
PB MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8412
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8412
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024