ArticleAppetite2020
The association of food insecurity with the relative reinforcing value of food, BMI, and gestational weight gain among pregnant women.
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- Relationship between food insecurity and the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension: a prospective cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Food insecurity during pregnancy and associated perinatal outcomes: a scoping review.Epidemiologic reviews · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity in Pregnancy, Receipt of Food Assistance, and Perinatal Complications.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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- Prevalence and related factors of inappropriate gestational weight gain among pregnant women with overweight/ obesity in Thailand.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- The Effect of Financial Scarcity on Reinforcer Pathology: A Dyadic Developmental Examination.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The effect of acute and chronic scarcity on acute stress: A dyadic developmental examination.Physiology & behavior · 2022Article
- Women's Social Well-Being During Pregnancy: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Recent Life Events.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- A call to action to address COVID-19-induced global food insecurity to prevent hunger, malnutrition, and eating pathology.Nutrition reviews · 2021Article
- The Relative Reinforcing Value of Cookies Is Higher Among Head Start Preschoolers With Obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Influence of Food Security Status and Diet Quality on Maternal Gestational Weight Gain.Journal of midwifery & women's healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveFood insecurity is associated with obesity among adults. During pregnancy, food insecurity increases obesity risk among mothers and infants. This study investigated the association of food security with pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG) adequacy to date, and the relative reinforcing value (RRV) of food during pregnancy.
methodsThis secondary data analysis examined 258 pregnant women (mean gestational age = 21.21 ± 10.21 weeks) surveyed on pre-pregnancy weight, height, pregnancy due date and GWG to date, current diagnoses related to eating and pregnancy, and demographics. The survey also assessed current food security and RRV of meals, snacks, cognitive activities, and active activities. BMI was calculated from pre-pregnancy height and weight (kg/m
resultsLower food security was related to both greater pre-pregnancy BMI (β = 0.60, p < .001) and greater RRV of snack foods (β = 3.46, p < .05), after controlling for covariates. Lower food security was also related to GWG to date below recommended levels (OR = 1.25, p < .05).
conclusionsFood insecurity is related to higher relative food reinforcement during pregnancy, and greater pre-pregnancy weight status. Future research should replicate and extend these findings by assessing them longitudinally to better evaluate the directions of these relationships.
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