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Starting Pediatric Obesity Prevention in Pregnancy

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Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Obesity
Pregnancy

Treatments

Behavioral: Home visit
Behavioral: Social network building intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01279109
IRB00022051

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether we can use social networks to spread health information and health behaviors during pregnancy to prevent excessive gestational weight gain.

Full description

The long-term goal of this research is to prevent obesity-related adverse health outcomes for future generations by applying information emerging from social network studies to the development of new population-based behavioral interventions. There are a number of critical periods during fetal development that appear to influence the later development of obesity. Interventions that prevent insult to these critical windows from occurring could improve children's life course trajectories. This project sets the groundwork for examining whether social networks could explicitly be utilized to support women in gaining weight during pregnancy within their clinically recommended weight gain target.

Enrollment

147 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

16 to 99 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • any race/ethnicity
  • speak Spanish or English
  • ≥16 years
  • >10 and <28 weeks pregnant
  • in prenatal care
  • anticipating remaining in Middle Tennessee for their full gestation
  • willing to sign a medical information release form so that we can abstract weight measures from their obstetric and pediatric records

Exclusion criteria

  • speak neither Spanish or English
  • <16 years
  • < 10 weeks or >28 weeks pregnant
  • not in prenatal care
  • anticipating leaving Middle Tennessee before full gestation
  • unwilling to sign medical information release form
  • current or past (within last 12 months) enrollment in another research program that targets weight, physical activity, nutrition

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

147 participants in 2 patient groups

Social network building intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Healthy lifestyle intervention focused on building healthy lifestyle skills and reciprocal social ties between the intervention group members
Treatment:
Behavioral: Social network building intervention
Home visit
Active Comparator group
Description:
Home visits focused on preventable infant injuries
Treatment:
Behavioral: Home visit

Trial contacts and locations

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