Validity of Prepregnancy Weight Status Estimated from Self-reported Height and Weight
- Authors
- Shin, Dayeon; Chung, Hwan; Weatherspoon, Lorraine; Song, Won O.
- Issue Date
- 9월-2014
- Publisher
- SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
- Keywords
- Validity; Self-reports; Prepregnancy weight status
- Citation
- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL, v.18, no.7, pp.1667 - 1674
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 1667
- End Page
- 1674
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/97487
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10995-013-1407-6
- ISSN
- 1092-7875
- Abstract
- The Institute of Medicine's gestational weight gain guidelines are intended to reduce pregnancy complications, poor birth outcomes and excessive postpartum weight retention. The specific weight gain guidelines vary by prepregnancy weight status. We evaluated the validity of prepregnancy weight status (underweight, normal weight, overweight and obesity) classified from self-reported prepregnancy height and weight in reference to those from measured data during the first trimester of pregnancy and imputed data for both pregnant and age-matched non-pregnant women included in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2006. Self-reported prepregnancy weight status was validated by two ideal references: imputed data with the number of imputations as 10 (n = 5,040) using the data of age-matched non-pregnant women who had both self-reported and measured data, and weight status based on height and weight measured during the first trimester (n = 95). Mean differences, Pearson's correlations (r), and Kappa statistics (kappa) were used to examine the strength of agreement between self-reported data and the two reference measures. Mean (standard error of the mean) differences between self-reported versus imputed prepregnancy weight was -1.7 (0.1) kg with an r = 0.98 (p < 0.001), and kappa = 0.78 which indicate substantial agreement for the 504 pregnant women. Mean (SEM) differences between self-reported prepregnancy weight versus measured weight in the first trimester was -2.3 (0.7) kg with r = 0.98 (p < 0.001), and kappa = 0.76, which also showed substantial agreements in 95 pregnant women. Prepregnancy weight status classified based on self-reported prepregnancy height and weight was valid.
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