The Effects of mHealth Intervention on Health Empower of Overweight and Obese Women's Body Weight During Pregnancy

Mackay Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women

Treatments: Behavioral: empowerment program with mHealth

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04553731

LCF-MOST107

Details and patient eligibility

About

evaluate the health empowerment program with mHealth to promote physical activity for overweight and obese pregnant women.

Full description

This two-phase study develops an mhealth application (app) based on social-cognitive theory (SCT) and evaluates its effectiveness for overweight and obese women, which can help to prevent excessive GWG by enhancing optimal weight and healthy behavior during pregnancy.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. pregnant women--who have had, 8-12 weeks
2. pre-pregnancy body mass index > 25 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

The mHealth-based program

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group used the mHealth app and Mi Smart Band 5 on managing and preventing excessive GWG among overweight and obese women during pregnancy

Treatment:

Behavioral: empowerment program with mHealth

The standard antenatal treatments with no mHealth-based elements

No Intervention group

Description:

controls received standard antenatal treatments with no mHealth-based elements