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• We propose an Italian version of PPAQ to be applied to the Italian Population demonstrating a high reproducibility. • The grade of inactivity is very high among pregnant women in Southern Italy. • Motivational counseling by obs/gyn healthcare providers has not widespread yet. Knowledge about physical activity in pregnancy is limited compared to general population and several approaches have been used to evaluate duration and intensity of physical activity during pregnancy. Although physical activity can contribute to maternal and fetal well-being, more than half of women stopped their physical activity because of pregnancy. To evaluate the adherence to physical activity of low-risk pregnant women by adapting an Italian version of the PPAQ. PPAQ was administered to women with singleton uneventful pregnancies between May and December 2022. The intensity of physical activity was calculated using activity's metabolic equivalent (MET). Respondents spent 8.5 hours/week during the third trimester in all the types of activities included in the questionnaire, and the majority of METs were spent in household/caregiving activities (91.7 METs-h/week). Only 2,6 % of women reported they spent at least 150 minutes per week in moderate-intensity sport/exercise activity. One-hundred-forty-one women (37.2 %) reported they have been counselled by a midwife or an obstetrician regarding the importance of physical activity in pregnancy and 164 participants (43.3 %) declared that have been advised in favour of bed rest at least once in the current pregnancy. Our results showed that a very small percentage was regularly involved in sport/exercise activities. The engagement in physical activity of pregnant women during the third trimester is still very low and specific policies to improve exercise in pregnancy should be warrantied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The catalogue consists of a simple text list of 1,315,562 records of all published names of vascular plants, including 351,180 accepted species names, 48,257 infraspecific taxon names, and 846,279 synonyms. A new taxonomic reference list for all known extant vascular plants, the Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants (LCVP - Freiberg & al., 2020), is now available for download (https://idata.idiv.de/ddm/Data/ShowData/1806; https://doi.org/10.25829/idiv.1806-40-3009, Fig. LCVP, The Leipzig Catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants. [Extracted from the article]