Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Esther Heid, Connor W Coley, Deeptak Verma, William H Green, Klavs F Jensen
Similarity based enzymatic retrosynthesis
Chemical science
maintaining healthy lifestyle pregnancy essential increasing availability internet pregnant women access wealth information related physical activity pa healthy diets study aims investigate extent internet usage pregnant women attending antenatal clinics qatar obtain information pa healthy diets identify associated factors evaluate impact information lifestyle habits crosssectional study conducted six randomly selected public antenatal clinics qatar pregnant women aged 18 years trimester recruited using probability sampling technique data collected selfadministered questionnaires descriptive analytic statistics employed data analysis total 327 pregnant women mean age 295 years 40 completed returned questionnaire response rate 875 among participants 545 used internet obtain information pa 72 sought online dietrelated information factors age 2635 years tertiary education employment status primigravidae associated higher likelihood using internet healthy lifestyles information participants reported using internet pa information great deal likely increase pa pregnancy compared used somewhat little 576 268 50 p 0001 respectively similarly used internet diet information great deal likely increase fruit vegetable consumption compared used somewhat little 842 685 636 p 0038 respectively also participants used internet diet information great deal likely decrease amount sugary fatty foods ate compared women used internet somewhat little 614 452 182 p 0001 respectively 509 304 182 p 0001 respectively many pregnant women use internet access information pa diet greater use associated positive lifestyle changes study provides useful information consider designing intervention programs pregnant women adopting maintaining healthy lifestyles