Health-related Behaviors in Pregnancy: A Key to Achieve Better Outcomes - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet. 2020;42(3):121-123
In the last decades, changes in disease patterns from infectious to chronic diseases have made health-related behaviors become critical to the public’s health and well-being. In pregnancy, similarly, the adoption of health-related behaviors has been recognized as a powerful element to minimize the occurrence of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes and, consequently, improve woman and neonate’s health. Moreover, it is well established that the intrauterine environment, which the fetus is exposed to, impacts not only the neonatal outcomes, but also program a susceptibility to long-term metabolic disease development.
Gochman defined health behavior as “those personal attributes such as beliefs, expectations, motives, values, perceptions, and other cognitive elements; personality characteristics, including affective and emotional states and traits; and overt behavior patterns, actions, and habits that relate to health maintenance, to health restoration, and to health improvement.” Besides that, health-related behaviors are part of lifestyle and comprise modifiable health factors. Here, our aim was to discuss health-related behaviors involving diet, physical exercise (PE), healthy weight maintenance, stress management, sleep time, low alcohol intake, and non-smoking in the context of prenatal care.
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In the last decades, changes in disease patterns from infectious to chronic diseases have made health-related behaviors become critical to the public's health and well-being. In pregnancy, similarly, the adoption of health-related behaviors has been recognized as a powerful element to minimize the occurrence of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes and, consequently, improve woman and neonate's health. Moreover, it is well established that the intrauterine environment, which the fetus is exposed to, impacts not only the neonatal outcomes, but also program a susceptibility to long-term metabolic disease development.
Gochman defined health behavior as “those personal attributes such as beliefs, expectations, motives, values, perceptions, and other cognitive elements; personality characteristics, including affective and emotional states and traits; and overt behavior patterns, actions, and habits that relate to health maintenance, to health restoration, and to health improvement.” Besides that, health-related behaviors are part of lifestyle and comprise modifiable health factors. Here, our aim was to discuss health-related behaviors involving diet, physical exercise (PE), healthy weight maintenance, stress management, sleep time, low alcohol intake, and non-smoking in the context of prenatal care.
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