Preventing Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Via Short Mobile Messages in WIC

University of Hawaii

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gestational Weight Gain

Treatments: Behavioral: Control; Behavioral: Nutrition and physical activity intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04330976

5U54MD008149-09 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this trial was to investigate the effect of educational short message service (SMS), or text messages, on gestational weight gain (GWG) in a low-income population.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 15-20 weeks gestational age and 18 years of age or older at time of recruitment
• body mass index (BMI) of 25-45 kg/m2 in the first trimester
• possession of a cellular phone with the ability to receive text messages without a charge

Exclusion criteria

• conditions requiring a special diet
• multiparous pregnancies
• unable to consent to participate
• unwilling to be randomized

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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83 participants in 2 patient groups

Nutrition and physical activity intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition and physical activity intervention

Control

Other group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control