Construct and Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Theory-based mHealth for Overweight and Obese Women During Pregnancy

Mackay Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Gestational Weight Gain

Treatments: Other: experimental group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04553718

MackayMedical

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was to construct and develop an application (APP) based on social-cognitive theory for overweight and obese women during pregnancy.

Full description

Our program used and evaluated the mHealth program, which has pregnant women using APP and wearable devices to help prevent excessive gestational weight gain, and it continued to promote physical activity for overweight and obese pregnant women.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

pregnant women--who have had, for 8-12 weeks, a pre-pregnancy body mass index of more than 25 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

high risk pregnancy, such as pre-clampsia, pregnancy induced hypertension, preterm contraction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

experiemental group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental group was the mHealth app to improved their gestational weight gain and physical activity during pregnancy.

Treatment:

Other: experimental group

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

standard prenatal care and without mHealth app