Diet and exercise in pregnancy

Weighing pregnant women to achieve ideal weight gains in pregnancy

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12607000272493

Enrollment

260

Registered

2007-05-21

Start date

2007-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of regular maternal weighing in pregnancy to acheive optimal weight gains during pregnancy

Interventions

Women will weigh themselves at each antenatal visit from recruitment until 36 weeks gestation and record weight on a patient held record. The aim of weighing is to motivate women to achieve optimal weight gain, and so potentially reduce adverse pregnacy outcomes including fetal macrosomia, hypertension , gestational diabetes.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

16 Years to 45 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Homen with a singleton pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

Pre-existing diabetes

Outcome results