Preventing Excessive Weight Gain and Maternal and Infant Fat Accretion (SPROUT)

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant Fat Accretion; Gestational Weight Gain; Maternal Fat Accretion

Treatments: Behavioral: High fiber diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04868110

STUDY00145397

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn if consuming a high fiber diet will reduce gestational weight gain and maternal and infant fat accretion.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pre-pregnancy BMI 18.5 - 45.0 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Comsuming more than 20 g/day of fiber
• No phone and internet access
• Pre-gestational diabetes
• Diagnosed with diabetes
• Pre-eclampsia
• Hypertension
• Other metabolic abnormalities
• Asthma
• Heart disease
• Smoking
• Drug abuse
• Recent antibiotic use
• Pregnancies of multiples

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Women in the usual care group, will received standard care from the obstetrician.

High fiber

Experimental group

Description:

Women in high fiber group will receive education on consuming a high fiber diet, including weekly lessons and daily snacks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: High fiber diet