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Maternal body dissatisfaction in pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting : an overlooked factor implicated in maternal and childhood obesity risk
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Bergmeier, Heidi, Hill, Briony, Haycraft, Emma, Blewitt, Claire, Lim, Siew, Meyer, Caroline and Skouteris, Helen (2020) Maternal body dissatisfaction in pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting : an overlooked factor implicated in maternal and childhood obesity risk. Appetite, 147 . 104525. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.104525 ISSN 0195-6663.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104525
Abstract
Background
Current evidence indicates that to prevent the intergenerational transfer of overweight and obesity from parent to child, interventions are needed across the early life stages, from preconception to early childhood. Maternal body image is an important but often overlooked factor that is potentially implicated in both short- and long-term maternal and child health outcomes, including maternal gestational weight gain, postpartum weight retention, obesity, child feeding practices and early parenting.
Aim
The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of the relationship between maternal body image (with a specific focus on body dissatisfaction) and maternal and child excess body weight risk across the pregnancy, postpartum and early childhood periods, as well as to highlight opportunities for intervention.
Conclusion
Our conceptual model proposes factors that mediate the associations between antenatal and postpartum maternal body dissatisfaction and maternal and childhood obesity risk. Pregnancy and postpartum present key risk periods for excess weight gain/retention and body dissatisfaction. Psychosocial factors associated with maternal body dissatisfaction, including psychopathology and disordered eating behaviours, may increase maternal and child obesity risk as well as compromise the quality of mother-child interactions underpinning child development outcomes, including physical weight gain. Our conceptual model may be useful for understanding modifiable psychosocial factors for preventing the intergenerational transfer of obesity risk from mothers to their children, from as early as pregnancy, and highlights next steps for multidisciplinary research focused on combatting maternal and child obesity during critical risk periods.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pregnant women -- Weight gain, Obesity, Maternal and infant welfare, Pregnancy -- Complications, Body weight, Postnatal care | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Appetite | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0195-6663 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 April 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 147 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 104525 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.appet.2019.104525 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 November 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 November 2020 | ||||||||
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