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Using FIGO Nutrition Checklist counselling in pregnancy: A review to support healthcare professionals

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 21 authors, 26 centres

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This narrative review summarizes global dietary recommendations for healthcare professionals to use the FIGO Nutrition Checklist in pregnancy. It concludes that the checklist helps identify nutritional deficiencies to address, with potential long-term benefits for mothers and children.

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This narrative review aims to support healthcare professionals in using the FIGO Nutrition Checklist by summarizing relevant nutritional recommendations. The checklist is a tool designed to address maternal malnutrition by generating awareness through questions on dietary requirements, BMI, diet quality, and micronutrients. The review synthesizes global dietary guidelines for checklist components and includes practical insights from countries that have used it. The authors state that implementation of the checklist helps identify potential nutritional deficiencies in women for healthcare providers to address, with potential longstanding benefits for mothers and children across generations.

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PMC10108324

Using FIGO Nutrition Checklist counselling in pregnancy: A review to support healthcare professionals

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

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Abstract The period before and during pregnancy is increasingly recognized as an important stage for addressing malnutrition. This can help to reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases in mothers and passage of risk to their infants. The FIGO Nutrition Checklist is a tool designed to address these issues. The checklist contains questions on specific dietary requirements, body mass index, diet quality, and micronutrients. Through answering these questions, awareness is generated, potential risks are identified, and information is collected that can inform health‐promoting conversations between women and their healthcare professionals. The tool can be used across a range of health settings, regions, and life stages. The aim of this review is to summarize nutritional recommendations related to the FIGO Nutrition Checklist to support healthcare providers using it in practice. Included is a selection of global dietary recommendations for each of the components of the checklist and practical insights from countries that have used it. Implementation of the FIGO Nutrition Checklist will help identify potential nutritional deficiencies in women so that they can be addressed by healthcare providers. This has potential longstanding benefits for mothers and their children, across generations.

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Sarah Louise Killeen, Niamh Donnellan, Sharleen L. O'Reilly et al.. Using FIGO Nutrition Checklist counselling in pregnancy: A review to support healthcare professionals. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14539

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21 · 26 CENTRES

Sarah Louise Killeen, Niamh Donnellan, Sharleen L. O'Reilly, Mark A. Hanson, Mary L. Rosser, Virna P. Medina, Chandni Maria Jacob, Hema Divakar, Moshe Hod, Liona C. Poon, Lina Bergman, Patrick O'Brien, Anil Kapur, Bo Jacobsson, Cynthia V. Maxwell, Harold David McIntyre, Lesley Regan, Esraa Algurjia, Ronald C. Ma, Sumaiya Adam, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe

1 UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital Dublin Ireland
2 School of Agriculture and Food Science University College Dublin Dublin Ireland
3 Institute of Developmental Sciences University Hospital Southampton Southampton UK
4 NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre University of Southampton Southampton UK
5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Columbia University Irving Medical Center New York New York USA
6 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Universidad del Valle, Clínica Imbanaco Quirón Salud, Universidad Libre Cali Colombia
7 Divakar's Specialty Hospital Bengaluru India
8 Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center Petah Tikva Israel
9 Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel
10 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR China
11 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
12 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Stellenbosch University Cape Town South Africa
13 Department of Women's and Children's Health Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
14 Institute for Women's Health University College London London UK
15 World Diabetes Foundation Bagsvaerd Denmark
16 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg Sweden
17 Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics Domain of Health Data and Digitalization, Institute of Public Health Oslo Norway
18 Maternal Fetal Medicine, Sinai Health and Women's College Hospital University of Toronto Toronto Canada
19 Mater Health University of Queensland, Mater Health Campus South Brisbane Queensland Australia
20 Imperial College London London UK
21 The World Association of Trainees in Obstetrics & Gynecology Paris France
22 Elwya Maternity Hospital Baghdad Iraq
23 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR China
24 Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR China
25 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa
26 Diabetes Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa