Promoting Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Lifespan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Weight Gain

Treatments: Behavioral: Lifestyle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01117961

CMTT# 2035-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study goal is to determine whether behavioral lifestyle intervention during pregnancy can reduce the number of women who exceed the Institute of Medicine recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy.

It is hypothesized that the intervention will reduce the number of women who exceed weight gain guidelines relative to standard care. The investigators also expect the intervention to reduce the proportion of women exceeding weight gain guidelines in both normal weight and overweight groups.

Enrollment: 401 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• non-smoking, adults,
• < 16 weeks gestation

Exclusion criteria

• medical comorbidities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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401 participants in 2 patient groups

control

No Intervention group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Lifestyle intervention delivered during pregnancy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lifestyle