Dietary Intervention, Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes.

University of Eastern Finland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gestational Diabetes; Dietary Habits; Weight Gain; Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Dietary intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03191331

Dietary intervention1619

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this pilot study is to conduct a dietary intervention for overweight (body maas index BMI≥25) and obese (BMI≥30) pregnant women in two maternity care clinics and explore the effect of the intervention on gestational weight gain and the prevalence of gestational diabetes between the intervention and control groups.

Full description

Half of the women are allocated to the intervention group and another half for the control group. The intervention group will get written material of healthy diet during pregnancy as well as emphasized nutritional guidance given by public health nurses at each visit in the maternity care clinic. There will also be two group meetings with a dietitian. The control group will get the same written material, but otherwise basic care and guidance at each visit in the maternity care clinics. The collected data of both groups include the information on weight gain, the result of an oral glucose tolerance test and 4 day food records, Three factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ R-18) and Binge Eating Scale (BES).

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age less than 35 years
• BMI 25 or over
• healthy, no chronic medical conditions
• singleton pregnancy
• first trimester of pregnancy at the time of recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• Age 35 and older
• BMI less than 25
• chronic medical conditions
• multiple pregnancy
• pregnancy at second or third trimester at the time of recruitment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Dietary intervention. Intervention group will receive written material on healthy diet during pregnancy, nutritional guidance given by public health nurses at each maternity care clinic visit and group meeting with dietician x2.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dietary intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive written material on healthy diet during pregnancy, otherwise basic care and guidance at maternity care clinics.