Ganancia de peso gestacional en pacientes que acuden desde la captación del embarazo al Centro de Salud de Malacatos

Abstract

Abstract:Pregnancy is a physiological process that begins from conception and ends at the time of birth, during which changes are experienced, one of them is gestational weight gain, which plays an essential role for its correct development. The present work was developed in order to determine the weight gain in pregnant women who attend the Malacatos Health Center to develop an educational nutrition intervention. A quasi-experimental study was carried out, the intervention was educational, it was carried out in pregnant women, their intervention was from January to August 2021. The results obtained determined that, during the first trimester of gestation, the participants had an inadequate gestational weight gain 60 %, in the second trimester of gestation the participants had an adequate gain of gestational weight of 53.4% and in the follow-up of the third trimester it was observed that the pregnant women obtained an adequate gain of weight with 66.7%. This changes during the trimesters may be due to the educational intervention given from the first trimester of pregnancy.