The views and attitudes of health professionals providing antenatal care to women with a high BMI: A qualitative research study.
CONCLUSION: Health professionals, who have a high BMI, can find it difficult to discuss obesity during antenatal visits with obese women. Specialist dietary interventions and evidence based guidelines for working with child-bearing women is seen as a public health priority by health care professionals.
PMID: 24295597 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Women Birth - Category: Midwifery Authors: Knight-Agarwal CR, Kaur M, Williams LT, Davey R, Davis D Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research
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