Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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3 Session 1: Communicating the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines
3 Session 1: Communicating the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines
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. Based on similar data the 2009 Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines anticipated that women were not gaining within the recommend ranges when it revised the pregnancy weight gain guidelines.
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Depending on which class of obese women is being considered, as few as 18 percent and as many as 25.4 percent gained within the guideline, while half or more of the women in each class gained more than the recommended amounts. Nearly one-third (32.4 percent)
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If a professional society adopts a committee's recommendations, then it provides an opportunity to create a standard of care. New practices do not penetrate medical care unless they become a standard of care; therefore, professional societies play a key role once they have adopted the guidelines because they can educate health teams and develop staff training tools.
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ANNA MARIA SEIGA-RIZ, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL The 2009 committee report that recommended the weight gain guidelines emphasized the importance of two actions -- informing women and health care providers about the guidelines and helping women maintain their weight gain within the guidelines -- and these two actions were the focus of the products developed by the dissemination committee. These products were designed to be visually appealing and easy to understand so that women at all different educational levels could relate to them, and the information within them was simplified to make it easier for prenatal
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It provides information about how much weight women should gain during pregnancy, and it allows women to monitor their own weight gain. The weight tracker could be a useful aid when patients and clinicians or nutritionists talk about weight gain and behaviors that may be pushing the woman above or below what she should be gaining.
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QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION Rasmussen opened the floor to questions. One participant noted that she has clients who are living in motels, cooking on hot plates, and putting food in a cooler outside because they have very limited refrigeration.
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SESSION 1 25 FIGURE 3-3 Pregnancy weight gain guidelines poster. NOTE: Available at http://www.iom.edu/healthypregnancy.
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26 DISSEMINATION OF THE PREGNANCY WEIGHT GAIN GUIDELINES FIGURE 3-4 Images from the pamphlet for women. NOTE: Available at http://www.iom.edu/healthypregnancy.
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SESSION 1 FIGURE 3-5 Pregnancy weight gain tracker. NOTE: Available at http://www.iom.edu/healthypregnancy.
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28 DISSEMINATION OF THE PREGNANCY WEIGHT GAIN GUIDELINES FIGURE 3-6 Pregnancy weight gain myths and facts chart. NOTE: Available at http://www.iom.edu/healthypregnancy.
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SESSION 1 29 FIGURE 3-7 Screen from the interactive infographic. NOTE: Available at http://www.iom.edu/healthypregnancy.
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