Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review
Pregnancy is a pivotal moment in a woman’s life, necessitating an increased focus on ensuring sufficient nutrition to promote both maternal wellbeing and fetal growth. During this period, it is crucial to emphasize the need for adequate micronutrients, including iron, calcium, and vitamin D. However...
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| author | Ilangovan Pratheesha Aruna Subramaniam Punitha Josephine Santhanasamy Vidhya Thirunavukkarasu Anand Thirunavukarasou |
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| description | Pregnancy is a pivotal moment in a woman’s life, necessitating an increased focus on ensuring sufficient nutrition to promote both maternal wellbeing and fetal growth. During this period, it is crucial to emphasize the need for adequate micronutrients, including iron, calcium, and vitamin D. However, pregnant women worldwide continue to experience deficits in these essential nutrients, which increases the risk of adverse health outcomes for pregnant women and infants. Behavioral intervention presents a potentially practical approach to address this disparity by focusing on dietary modification and encouraging compliance with prescribed nutritional standards. This comprehensive review utilized a systematic literature review to collect pertinent material for the article from Scopus and Web of Science databases, ensuring scientific credibility, transparency, and comprehensiveness regarding behavioral interventions promoting increased iron, calcium, and vitamin D consumption among pregnant women. This review seeks to provide clinicians, researchers, and policymakers with information on practical techniques to enhance maternal and fetal health by improving food intake during pregnancy. Further, it will explore intervention strategies, efficacy, underlying processes, and future directions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b1dea4e062cc48e2b08508771d8149a12025-08-20T02:11:55ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Education and Health Promotion2277-95312319-64402025-03-0114110810810.4103/jehp.jehp_684_24Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive reviewIlangovan PratheeshaAruna SubramaniamPunitha Josephine SanthanasamyVidhya ThirunavukkarasuAnand ThirunavukarasouPregnancy is a pivotal moment in a woman’s life, necessitating an increased focus on ensuring sufficient nutrition to promote both maternal wellbeing and fetal growth. During this period, it is crucial to emphasize the need for adequate micronutrients, including iron, calcium, and vitamin D. However, pregnant women worldwide continue to experience deficits in these essential nutrients, which increases the risk of adverse health outcomes for pregnant women and infants. Behavioral intervention presents a potentially practical approach to address this disparity by focusing on dietary modification and encouraging compliance with prescribed nutritional standards. This comprehensive review utilized a systematic literature review to collect pertinent material for the article from Scopus and Web of Science databases, ensuring scientific credibility, transparency, and comprehensiveness regarding behavioral interventions promoting increased iron, calcium, and vitamin D consumption among pregnant women. This review seeks to provide clinicians, researchers, and policymakers with information on practical techniques to enhance maternal and fetal health by improving food intake during pregnancy. Further, it will explore intervention strategies, efficacy, underlying processes, and future directions.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jehp.jehp_684_24behavioral treatmentsdietary planfood and nutritionmaternal healthmicronutrients |
| spellingShingle | Ilangovan Pratheesha Aruna Subramaniam Punitha Josephine Santhanasamy Vidhya Thirunavukkarasu Anand Thirunavukarasou Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review Journal of Education and Health Promotion behavioral treatments dietary plan food and nutrition maternal health micronutrients |
| title | Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review |
| title_full | Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review |
| title_fullStr | Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review |
| title_short | Harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy: A comprehensive review |
| title_sort | harnessing behavioral interventions to enhance micronutrient intake in pregnancy a comprehensive review |
| topic | behavioral treatments dietary plan food and nutrition maternal health micronutrients |
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