Nutrition-related information-seeking behaviours of women trying to conceive and pregnant women: evidence for the life course perspective.

Objectives. To examine whether preconception and pregnancy could be an occasion triggering women's interest, search and need for both general and pregnancy-specific nutrition-related information, in order to: (i) provide a greater understanding of the life course perspective (in this case on nutrition behaviours and pregnancy) and (ii) to contribute to the rationale of nutrition interventions aimed at women of child-bearing age. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]