Krebs, Franziska ORCID: 0000-0002-5998-3801 (2022). Evaluation of a preventive counseling intervention delivered in routine healthcare. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Overweight and obesity are major public health concerns. Maternal weight gain during pregnancy is an important and potentially modifiable determinant for the risk of overweight and obesity and other health outcomes of mother and child. Therefore, it presents a favorable opportunity for preventive interventions. Incorporating effective interventions on gestational weight gain (GWG) into routine prenatal care is seen as a promising strategy to increase an intervention’s impact in the population of pregnant women, as utilization of prenatal healthcare is high. This thesis addresses the evaluation of a brief counseling intervention embedded in routine prenatal healthcare using three research projects. Based on the results of this thesis, the overall value of the intervention regarding its effectiveness can be determined and perspectives for scale-up can be discussed. The thesis covers the following objectives: 1) The first objective of this thesis is to assess the effectiveness of a health intervention in the routine healthcare setting to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and improve maternal and infant health outcomes. 2) The second objective of this thesis is to investigate factors beyond effectiveness that are associated with the scalability of the intervention. These include an assessment of the intervention’s reach and adoption. The results of the dissertation indicate that the intervention effectively lowered the proportion of women with EGWG and reduced the absolute amount of GWG. However, findings on the reach of the intervention show that trial participants differed from the overall pregnant population which limits the generalizability of the effectiveness results and implies that the intervention did not address the target group to a sufficient extent. Moreover, numbers of healthcare providers who adopted the intervention were low and several barriers for the adoption of the intervention were identified. Therefore, further work must be undertaken to increase the intervention’s suitability for scale-up for the intervention to become accessible to a wide population of pregnant women. If this is achieved, the intervention provides a promising strategy to prevent overweight and obesity in the population and to promote the health of two generations.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-640466 | ||||||||
Date: | 26 October 2022 | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Köln | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Gesundheitsökonomie | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 26 October 2022 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/64046 |
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