Trial reportMaternal & child nutrition2020
How can we best use opportunities provided by routine maternity care to engage women in improving their diets and health?
Trial report in Maternal & child nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Healthy Conversation Skills intervention to support changes to physical activity and dietary behaviours in community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.Perspectives in public health · 2026Trial
- Building knowledge, optimising physical and mental health and setting up healthier life trajectories in South African women (BMJ open · 2022Trial
- How can we best use opportunities provided by routine maternity care to engage women in improving their diets and health?Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Trial
- "I gave birth, and then I disappeared"-women's experience of primary care follow-up and lifestyle prevention after gestational diabetes.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- Exploring the 'train the trainer' model for delivering Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training at scale: A qualitative study.British journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Mixed Methods Evaluation of the "Train the Trainer" Model for Delivering Core "Making Every Contact Count" (MECC) Training.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
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- Increasing confidence and competence in supporting behaviour change in physiotherapy practice using Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills: a before and after evaluation.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Galvanizing and sustaining momentum are critical to improve maternal nutrition in South Asia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- How should we talk to pregnant women about physical activity? A scoping review of physical activity during pregnancy communication by healthcare professionals in the UK.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Review
- The effectiveness of integrating making every contact count into an undergraduate medical curriculum.PEC innovation · 2024Article
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- ImpENSA eHealthy Conversation Skills training for healthcare professionals aimed at improving micronutrient status during the first 1000 days in South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Integrating an algorithmic and health systems thinking approach to improve the uptake of government antenatal nutrition services in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh (India), 2018 to 2021.Health policy and planning · 2023Article
- 'I can feel myself coming out of the rut': a brief intervention for supporting behaviour change is acceptable to patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Identifying barriers to the educational role of midwives in Cyprus and defining determinants in behaviour terms using the Behaviour Change Wheel: a mixed-method formative study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Early life programming of health and disease: The long-term consequences of obesity in pregnancy.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2022Review
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- Overweight, obesity and excessive weight gain in pregnancy as risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes: A narrative review.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2022Review
- Gestational diabetes mellitus follow-up in Norwegian primary health care: a qualitative study.BJGP open · 2022Article
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Abstract
Pregnancy provides motivation for women to improve their diets and increase their physical activity. Opportunistic brief interventions delivered as part of routine primary care have produced improvements in patients' health behaviour. Consequently, there have been calls for midwives to use contacts during pregnancy in this way. This study explored the experiences of pregnant women and research midwives/nurses of a brief intervention called Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) being delivered as part of a randomised control trial, assessing the acceptability and feasibility of including this intervention in routine maternity care. Three research questions were addressed using mixed methods to produce four datasets: face-to-face interviews with participants, a focus group with the HCS-trained midwives/nurses, case reports of participants receiving HCS and audio-recordings of mid-pregnancy telephone calls to the women which produced midwife/nurse HCS competency scores. Midwives/nurses used their HCS to support women to make plans for change and set goals. Women welcomed the opportunity to address their own health and well-being as distinct from that of their baby. Midwives/nurses were competent in using the skills and saw healthy conversations as an effective means of raising issues of diet and physical activity. Recent extension of maternity appointment times provides ideal opportunities to incorporate a brief intervention to support behaviour change. Incorporating HCS training into midwifery education and continuing professional development would facilitate this. HCS is a scalable, brief intervention with the potential to improve the diets and physical activity levels of women during pregnancy, and hence the health of themselves and their babies.
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