TY - THES TY - BOOK T1 - Factors associated with gestational weight gain among pregnant women in Sepang, Selangor A1 - Noornabihah Nadhirah Yahaya. LA - English YR - 2018 UL - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/575674 AB - Obesity among women of childbearing age is very predominant and has raised a serious public health concern. Institute of Medicine (IOM) has developed a guideline on recommended pregnancy weight gain. The focus is on meeting, not exceeding the weight goals in order to avoid any pregnancy complications. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the associations between socio-demographic characteristics, maternal status. food groups frequency and nutritional knowledge level with gestational weight gain (GWG) among pregnant women. A set of self-administered questionnaire consisting socio-demographic characteristics (age, educational level, occupation and monthly household income), maternal status (pre-pregnancy BMI and parity), food groups frequency and nutritional knowledge level were completed by the respondents. Height and body weight were assessed by the researchers. A total of 115 pregnant women who attended prenatal check-up at selected governmental health clinic in Sepang, Selangor, participated in this study. All respondents were in final trimester with the mean age of 30.40 ± 3.77 years. Results showed that 49.6% ofthe respondents were gaining less than IOM 2009 Guideline and 20.9% gained excessively. Pre-pregnancy BMI was significantly associated with GWG (p<0.01). Mothers who entered pregnancy with underweight and normal weight were found to gain inadequately while overweight and obese mothers tend to gain more than recommended. None of the sociodemographic characteristics, food groups frequency and nutritional knowledge were correlated with GWG. In conclusion. there is a need to encourage all pregnant women to achieve healthy GWG as it is a modifiable factor that can be controlled. Keywords: gestational weight gain. pregnant women, pre-pregnancy BMI, nutritional knowledge CN - FPSK3 2018 41 ER -