The objective of the present study has been to determine changes in eating conduct, corporal auto perception and emotional state in expectant mothers of the South Cone of Metropolitan Lima that attended the external consultation of Manuel Barreto Hospital, located in the district of San Juan de Miraflores, between the months of September to November 2003.The type of study is observational analytic, partially retrospective and crossed, and responds to a correlation design. It devised a questionnaire, having in consideration the objectives of the study, the instrument previously validated complying methodological international demands.The data were processed in a database, in order to analyzed it statistically with the SPSS version 11 pac kage, carrying out frequencies and percentages. Differences in percentages were analyzed by the chisquare test, and logistic regression was used to find ...

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Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).