Comparative Assessment of Diet Quality and Adherence to a Structured Nutrition and Exercise Intervention Compared with Usual Care in Pregnancy in a Randomized Trial

Background: In trials testing the efficacy of diet and exercise modifications during pregnancy on health outcomes, assessment of participant adherence to interventions of diet and exercise is rarely reported, with few standard methods existing to measure adherence. Objective: We aimed to assess the maternal diet quality and create an algorithm to evaluate adherence to an intervention of high protein/dairy nutrition and walking exercise from …