The FIGO Nutrition Checklist
The FIGO Nutrition Checklist is an award-winning, validated clinical practice tool that can identify the regular consumption of unbalanced diets or other issues relating to nutrition and weight.
How does it work?
The FIGO Nutrition Checklist is a brief nutritional questionnaire, developed in 2015 by members of the FIGO Initiative on Adolescent, Preconception and Maternal Nutrition. Since its original launch, it has been further developed and promoted by FIGO’s Committee on the Impact of Pregnancy on Long-term Health.
It consists of four sections, with questions on specific dietary requirements, body mass index, diet quality and micronutrients. The aim of these questions is to collect baseline information on weight and nutritional status to inform health-promoting conversations before or during pregnancy and identify nutritional issues that may require further assessment or intervention.
Using the FIGO Nutrition Checklist
The FIGO Nutrition Checklist is available both as a downloadable PDF in English and as an online survey in English, French and Spanish for health care providers to use around the globe.
The online version of the FIGO Nutrition Checklist also allows individuals to learn more about their nutritional status and needs as they complete it. It offers a personalised PDF summary of recommendations for them to further discuss with their health care provider and make changes to their diet or lifestyle, if needed.
We encourage doctors, family care physicians, community health workers and other relevant healthcare providers to consider the FIGO Nutrition Checklist and to think nutrition and weight first, at every contact.
The FIGO Nutrition Checklist is freely available for use in research and clinical practice. Please reference the tool in your work. If needed, consider translating or adapting the FIGO Nutrition Checklist as appropriate so that it is suitable for the population, context and region.
