Food practices and nutritional status in primigestas at term

Prado Juscamaita J.I.; Tueros Espinoza J.; Gutarra Vara J.B.; Olarte Chávez J.J.; Salazar Barboza A. · European Public and Social Innovation Review (2025) · DOI: 10.31637/epsir-2025-1041

Resumen

Objective: To know the feeding practices and their relationship with the initial nutritional status of primigravidas in two health facilities in Huánuco 2023. Methodology: Relational descriptive study, non-experimental design. Population 650 primigravidas from two hospitals, the sample being n1= 143 primigravidas from Hospital II EsSalud Huánuco and n2=149 primigravidas from the Carlos Showing Ferrari Maternal and Child Hospital; technique: documentary analysis and survey, instruments: data collection sheet and Food Practices Scale. Bioethical principles, informed consent and review by a research ethics committee were taken into account. SPSS software version 28.0 was used for data analysis, presenting the descriptive and inferential results. Results: General characteristics: 68.84% were adult pregnant women; 65% came from urban areas; 36.3% were housewives. Regarding the variable initial nutritional status, on average 66.8% had a normal weight; Regarding the assessment of feeding practices, 90.9% and 86.6% of pregnant women had inadequate feeding practices; The inferential statistics obtained a Chi square of 6.44 p=0.37>0.05. Conclusions: Feeding practices are not related to the initial nutritional status of term primigravidas.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán