Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the motivators and barriers to the adoption of a healthy postpartum lifestyle after a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and/or gestational diabetes.
METHODS: Thirty-six women with complicated pregnancies participated in six focus-group interviews that aimed to explore the perceptions of modifiable determinants of postpartum lifestyle.
RESULTS: Although women expressed that they intended to live a healthy postpartum lifestyle, it was generally not achieved. The motivators included improving their own current health condition as well as modeling a healthy lifestyle for their children. Important barriers were reported to be lack of knowledge, poor recovery, and lack of professional support after delivery.
CONCLUSIONS: The reported motivators and barriers can be used to develop a postpartum lifestyle intervention.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 147-55 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Hypertension in pregnancy |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Adult
- Attitude to Health
- Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control
- Diabetes, Gestational/rehabilitation
- Female
- Fetal Growth Retardation/rehabilitation
- Focus Groups
- Glucose Metabolism Disorders/prevention & control
- Humans
- Intention
- Life Style
- Motivation
- Postpartum Period
- Pre-Eclampsia/rehabilitation
- Pregnancy
- Young Adult