MATERNAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MOTHER-CHILD CARE BASED ON BARKER´S THEORY

Introduction: noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as cancer, diabetes and systemic arterial hypertension are a world health care problem due to its increasing incidence, difficult adherence to intervention and incapacitating complications with high treatment costs. In 1989, David Barker published “The Fetal Origins Hypothesis”, presenting new risk factors to NCD that since have been the basis for scientific innovation: the prevention of such diseases through mother child care during the first thousand days of living. This work intends to evaluate the knowledge of mothers about general care (GC) and care directly related to Barker’s Theory (BT) during the first thousand days, looking for areas of improvement for perfect health education. Methods: transversal descriptive study with consecutive non probability sampling compounded of 400 parturients admitted at a major hospital in south Brazil (95% CI). Results and conclusion: BT showed a worst performance than GC (p