No.	Authors	Data base	Authors formation	Journal	Sample size	Year of publication	Summary
01	Nascimento S.L., Surita F.G., Parpinelli M.A., Siani S., Pinto e Silva J.L. [13]	Medline	Doctors	An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Eighty-two pregnant women	2011	The study showed that 47% of pregnant women had weight gains above the recommended limit, compared with 57% of women in the control group. There was no difference in gestational weight gain between the groups. Overweight pregnant women who exercised gained less weight during the entire pregnancy and after entry into the study compared with women in the control group. Arterial blood pressure was similar between the groups over time. There was no difference in perinatal outcome or QoL.
02	Vallim A., Osis M.J., Cecatti J.G., Baciuk E.P., Silveira C., Cavalcante S.R. [14]	Medline	Doctors, physiotherapist, social science and physical educator	Reproductive Health	Sixty-six women. Thirty-five in the control group and thirty-one in the experimental group.	2011	The study evaluated the relationship of regular practice of gymnastics with the quality of life.The vast majority of the participants felt that the practice of gymnastics had benefited in some way. QoL scores were found to be high in both groups during follow-up. There was no association between QOL and practice exercises.
03	Lau Y., Yin L. [15]	Medline	Not identified	Midwifery	1151 of pregnant women in the second trimester of pregnancy.	2011	Pregnant women who were younger, single, divorced, separated or cohabiting, had a lower level of education, worked long hours or who had an unplanned pregnancy with late initiation of antenatal care or poor physical or mental health-related quality of life had higher levels of perceived stress.
04	Arizabaleta A.V.M., Buitrago L.O., Plata A.C.A., Escudero M.M., Ramírez-Vélez R. [16]	Medline	Physiotherapists	Journal of Physiotherapy	Fifty nulliparous pregnant women	2010	Fifty women completed the study. After the 3-month intervention, the experimental group had improved their health-related quality of life more than the control group in the physical component summary of the questionnaire by 6 points, the physical function domain, the bodily pain domain and the general health domain.
05	Lacasse A., Rey E., Ferreira E., Morin C., Bérard A.[17]	Medline	Pharmacists and doctors	An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	507 pregnant women	2008	Of the 367 pregnant women included in the study, 78.5% reported nausea and vomiting in the first trimester of pregnancy. The presence of these symptoms was significantly associated with lower quality of life assessed by the SF-12.
06	Symon A.G., Dobb B.R. [18]	Medline	Midwife	Midwifery	35 women (20 nulliparous and 15 parous) in the third trimester of pregnancy	2008	The interviews lasted for 15 - 25 mins and none of the women found the MGI difficult to complete. Face validity were good; criterion validity could not be assessed formally, but the MGI scores and the GHQ-30 scores were well correlated. While some comment categories were universally positive (“looking for ward to baby”, “relationship with partner”) and others were universally negative (“tiredness”, “aches and pains”), other categories were mixed (“social life”, “work”).