Homeopathic Medication and Nutritional Oriented Diet to Treat Overweight Pregnant Women With Mental Disorder

Edgard Costa de Vilhena

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Mental Disorder; Overweight; Pregnancy

Treatments: Drug: Homeopathy and Nutritional oriented diet; Drug: Sulph, Puls, Lyc, Lack t, Con, Sep, Nux v, Calc c, Phos

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00942097

HAM-01082009

Homeopathy (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of homeopathic treatment in pregnant women with overweight and class I obesity with suspicion of a mental disorder.

Full description

The weight gain during pregnancy has been reported as an important factor of being overweight after delivery and comorbidities. There are a lot of restrictions to treat pregnant women due to fetus development. Homeopathy presents itself as an integrative medicine that could treat with less collateral effects improving general health. The investigators are going to test the effects of homeopathy.

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant women with less than 28 weeks,
• BMI from 26 to 35 Kg/ m2,
• SRQ-20 positive.

Exclusion criteria

• Diabetes
• Cardiopathies
• Hypertension
• Nephropathies
• Psychiatric treatment
• Drug users
• Pulmonary Chronic Disease
• Suicidal ideas
• No eating (appetites)
• Problems of BMI measurements (disabled people)
• Concomitant homeopathic treatment
• People who are looking for just 1 medical appointment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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134 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Nutritional plus Placebo (homeopathy)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Nutritional oriented diet for pregnancy period add homeopathic preparation from inert substance.

Treatment:

Drug: Homeopathy and Nutritional oriented diet

Drug: Sulph, Puls, Lyc, Lack t, Con, Sep, Nux v, Calc c, Phos

Nutr and Homeop Sulph Puls Lyc Lackt Con Sep Nuxv Calcc Phos

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nutrition oriented diet for pregnancy period add active homeopathic medication (Sulph, Puls, Lyc, Lack t, Con, Sep, Nux v, Calc c, Phos)

Treatment:

Drug: Homeopathy and Nutritional oriented diet

Drug: Sulph, Puls, Lyc, Lack t, Con, Sep, Nux v, Calc c, Phos