Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Family Medicine

This is an interventional study using health education about nutrition and lifestyle during pregnancy with pre/post assessment. The study was aiming to test Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of women attending to the antenatal clinic for follow up, to conduct health educational sessions, to improve the nutrition status of the pregnant females attending for antenatal care in primary health care facilities. The study will included two phases: phase one: the attendant pregnant females completed a base line assessment which included the personal, obstetric history, history of morbidities, assessment of the nutrition and the life style and routine examination and investigations. ANC visits were recorded monthly along three months. Phase two: Health education sessions were done. The session was preceded by a pretest which was formed from 20 questions then the health education message. The pregnant women who attended health education intervention were evaluated through the post test one month later. Analysis of the food intake of the pregnant women showed that half of the study group of the pregnant women consumed three main meals with no snacks daily, 29.0% consumed average amount of water and only 18.0% consumed two cups or more of milk daily. None of the study group of the pregnant practiced exercise, smoke actively or consumed alcohol or cigarettes and most of them believed that there is no forbidden food during pregnancy

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