Intervention, Dietary, Diabetes, Pregnancy (IDDP)

University of Eastern Finland

Status: Completed

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

Treatments: Behavioral: Dietary intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04690907

031220

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this rct -study is to explore the effect of a dietary intervention for overweight (body maas index BMI≥25) and obese (BMI≥30) pregnant women on gestational weight gain and the prevalence of gestational diabetes.

Full description

Pregnant women are recruited for the study from 18 maternity care clinics in Northern Savo and Northern Karelia area. The participants will be randomized into intervention and control groups. All the participants will have access to the study web-pages, which includes written material of healthy diet during pregnancy as well as all the study material (4 day food records, Three factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ R-18) and Binge Eating Scale (BES)). In addition, intervention group will get two virtual dietary counseling sessions by a dietician. The information on participants' gestational weight gain and the result of oral glucose tolerance tests will be collected by the public health nurses after birth.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI 25 or higher
• healthy, no chronic medical conditions that can prevent participating to the study
• singleton pregnancy
• first trimester of pregnancy at the time of recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• 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: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Dietary intervention: Written material on healthy diet during pregnancy, 2 virtual dietary counseling sessions given by a dietician. Otherwise basic care and counseling at maternity care clinics.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dietary intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Written material on healthy diet during pregnancy, otherwise basic care and counseling at maternity care clinics.