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Nutritional Counseling Helps Weight Loss in Postpartum Mothers
Denny Anggoro Prakoso (a), Novihani Handayani (b)

a) Public Health and Family Medicine Department, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta.
Email : denny.anggoro[at]umy.ac.id
b) Undegraduate student, Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta.


Abstract

Postpartum women are facing difficulty to maintain the increase of body weight in the first 6 months. This condition, if it not noticed, can lead to obese level and also can increase risk factor of some diseases. Overweight can be treated by maintain the dietary habit to support balanced nutrition through giving nutrition education. Balanced nutrition guidelines provide dietary habit and healthy behavior instructions to all community in order to maintain normal body weight. The aim of this study is to find out the effect of giving nutritional counseling based on balanced nutrition guidelines on weight loss in postpartum mothers. This research is a quasi experimental study involving 30 postpartum mothers from primary health care which was obtained through purposive sampling technique. The research subjects were divided into treatment group and control group. Nutrition counseling interventions using balanced nutrition guidelines are carried out at least 1 time by physicians during the research within a period of 1 month. Data on body weight change were analyzed using paired t test and Mann Whitney test. The results of this study revealed paired t test showed a significant change in body weight in the intervention group while the control group was not significant. Based on the Mann-Whitney test, the mean weight change was significant between the intervention groups when compared to the control group. From this result we can conclude that nutrition counseling using balanced nutrition guidelines helps reduce postpartum maternal weight loss.

Keywords: nutritional counseling, postpartum, weight loss

Topic: International Symposium of Engineering, Technology, and Health Sciences

Link: https://ifory.id/abstract/GNW6xuDcdbg4

Conference: The 3rd International Conference on Sustainability and Innovation (ICoSI 2019)

Plain Format | Corresponding Author (Denny Anggoro Prakoso)

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