[Purpose] The aim of this study was to translate the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire into Turkish and test its reliability and validity among Turkish pregnant women. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 204 healthy, single pregnant women between the ages 18 and 40 who volunteered to participate in this study. Reliability was evaluated by measuring the one-week test-retest reliabil...

Physical activity (PA) during normal pregnancy has various positive effects on pregnant women’s health. Determination of the relationship between PA and health outcomes requires accurate measurement of PA in pregnant women. The purpose of this review is to provide a summary of valid and reliable PA questionnaires for pregnant women. During 2013, Pubmed, OvidSP and Web of Science databases were ...

gestational diabetes increases the risks for mother and fetus during pregnancy. as a principle of caring for diabetes, recommending patients to lose weight through more physical activities and a restrictive diet has a long history. the present study was carried out aiming at determining and comparing dietary style and physical activity in women with gestational diabetes and healthy pregnant wom...

background: life style is the collection of behaviors influenced by individuals' characteristics, social interactions and socio-economic situations. since, pregnancy is a part of life it can change persons' life style. this study has tried to evaluate the relationship between life style and some characteristics of pregnant women. methods: this study was an analytic cross sectional study. the da...

It is recognized that the levels of women's physical activity during pregnancy has a direct bearing on the method of delivery and health of the newborn. The main objective of the study was investigation of the level of physical activity of women during pregnancy according to the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ). The subjects of this study were n=2852 post-partum women surveyed t...

background physical activity (pa) patterns during pregnancy have not been explored in depth and most previous studies lack assessment of variables such as type, frequency, duration and intensity of activity. objectives this study had two goals: 1) to analyze pa patterns during pregnancy according to weekly time spent on different types of activity; and 2) to determine women’s perception about h...

abstract background: attention to different aspects of self‑efficacy leads to actual evaluation of self‑efficacy about physical activity. this study was carried out in order to design and determine psychometric characteristics of a questionnaire for evaluation of self‑efficacy about leisure time physical activity (selpa) among iranian adolescent boys, with an emphasis on regulatory self‑efficac...