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Environmental Factors Contributing to Gestational Weight Gain in Portage County, Ohio Women

Kintner, Erin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1396546741

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2014, MS, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Health Sciences.
The purpose of this study was to examine if environmental factors were related to gestational weight gain in Portage County, Ohio women enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). A paper based questionnaire was completed by female WIC participants 18 years of age or older in the second trimester of pregnancy or greater or by postpartum women within a six month delivery period (n=100). Means and standard deviations were used to describe differences in education, race, age, parity, pregnancy intention, breastfeeding history, diet, pre-pregnancy BMI, smoking status, sleep patterning, physical activity, gestational weight gain classification, federal poverty line percentage, food security classification, and SNAP recipient classification among participants. A Kruskal-Wallis Test and Backwards Regression were performed for all significant analyses. This study demonstrated demographic, pregnancy history and intention, lifestyle patterns, anthropometrics, and socioeconomic variables had little effect on a woman’s gestational weight gain classification (inadequate, recommended or excessive weight gain). However, there was a significant (p=0.02) relationship between a woman’s past breastfeeding history and her gestational weight gain classification. Women who had breastfed in the past for six continual months, were more likely to gain recommended gestational weight gain, suggesting a need for WIC dietitians to promote this factor over all others.
Natalie Caine-Bish (Advisor)
Karen Lowry Gordon (Committee Member)
Eun-Jeong Ha (Committee Member)
99 p.
Nutrition; Obstetrics
gestational weight gain

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  • Kintner, E. (2014). Environmental Factors Contributing to Gestational Weight Gain in Portage County, Ohio Women [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1396546741

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kintner, Erin. Environmental Factors Contributing to Gestational Weight Gain in Portage County, Ohio Women. 2014. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1396546741.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kintner, Erin. "Environmental Factors Contributing to Gestational Weight Gain in Portage County, Ohio Women." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1396546741

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