Health Improvement After Pregnancy (HIP) Program Randomized Control Trial

Queen's University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Metabolic Cardiovascular Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: HIP Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02077179

OBGY-249-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent Canadian studies, public opinion polls and the Canadian Heart Health Strategy and Action Plan state that women's heart health is a key national priority; it should be addressed through improving heart health awareness and prevention, and reducing care inequities for women in general and younger women in particular. The investigators have developed an innovative and interactive mobile website based postpartum lifestyle modification program (regular physical activity and nutritional guidance), based on established national guidelines, to improve heart disease risk factors in women. The investigators will conduct a trial to determine if the mobile website based lifestyle modification program can be maintained and reduces a collection of risk factors, which occurring together, greatly increases the risk of developing heart disease. The investigators hypothesize that the interactive mobile website directing regular physical activity and personalized nutritional guidance, compared to standard postpartum care, will be motivational and result in a reduced modified metabolic syndrome z score at 8 months postpartum among the intervention group.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• must own or have daily access to one or more of the following; smart phone, tablet or laptop computer

Exclusion criteria

• Living greater than 100km from Kingston General Hospital
• Having an existing and long term contraindication to exercise at the time of recruitment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm will receive care as per the usual standards from Kingston General Hospital and their primary care provider.

HIP Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will follow the HIP Program in addition to their usual care from Kingston General Hospital and their primary care provider.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIP Program