ArticleMaternal health, neonatology and perinatology2016
Maternal diet quality and nutrient intake in the gestational period: results from the delta healthy sprouts comparative impact trial.
Article in Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01746394 (Delta Healthy Sprouts), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Delta Healthy Sprouts: A Randomized Trial to Determine the Comparative Efficacy of Two Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs on Maternal Weight Control and Childhood Obesity in the Mississippi Delta
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to Optimize Dietary Patterns in Black Pregnant Individuals: An Integrative Review.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Pooled it
- Effective dietary interventions during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavior change techniques to promote healthy eating.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Food Environment in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Food Deserts, Food Swamps and Hot Spots.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Measurement of Nutrition Environments in Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores, and Restaurants in the Lower Mississippi Delta.Preventing chronic disease · 2020Article
- Better Diet Quality during Pregnancy Is Associated with a Reduced Likelihood of an Infant Born Small for Gestational Age: An Analysis of the Prospective New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Low rate of initiation and short duration of breastfeeding in a maternal and infant home visiting project targeting rural, Southern, African American women.International breastfeeding journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundA woman's diet while pregnant can play an important role in her reproductive health as well as the health of her unborn child. Diet quality and nutrient intake amongst pregnant women residing in the rural Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region of the United States is inadequate. The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project was designed to test the comparative impact of two home visiting programs on weight status, dietary intake, and health behaviors of women and their infants residing in the LMD region. This paper reports results pertaining to maternal diet quality and nutrient intake in the gestational period.
methodsThe experimental arm (PATE) received monthly home visits beginning in the second trimester using the Parents as Teachers curriculum enhanced with a nutrition and lifestyle behavior curriculum. The control arm (PAT) received monthly home visits using the Parents as Teachers curriculum only. Maternal diet was assessed via 24-h dietary recall at gestational months (GM) 4 (baseline), 6, and 8. Diet quality was computed using the Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI-2010).
resultsGestational period retention rates for PAT and PATE arms were 77 % (33/43) and 67 % (26/39), respectively. Significant effects were not found for time, treatment, or time by treatment for the HEI-2010 total or component scores, macro- or micronutrient intake or percentage of women meeting recommended nutrient intakes.
conclusionsPerhaps due to low participant enrollment and higher than expected rates of drop out and noncompliance, we were not able to demonstrate that the enhanced nutrition and lifestyle curriculum (PATE) intervention had a significant effect on diet quality or nutrient intake during pregnancy in this cohort of rural, Southern, primarily African American women.
trial registrationclinicaltrials.gov, NCT01746394. Registered 5 December 2012.
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