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Conditions
Brief summary
Research shows women are struggling to eat well and exercise during pregnancy with up to 50% exceeding the weight gain guidelines for pregnancy. This excess gestational weight gain (GWG) puts the mother and infant at risk of negative health consequences (eg gestational diabetes, difficult deliveries and future obesity). Novel ways to extend our reach to all women is required. This project aims to test a mobile phone (m-health) and internet delivered intervention promoting healthy eating, physical activity and pregnancy and GWG in pregnant women. This study will trial the intervention with 50 pregnant women from MHW from recruitment to 36 weeks gestation and compare with 50 pregnant women in standard care. It will include: tailored text messages, video messages from health professionals and peers, weight and goal self-monitoring, detailed information on a website and a chat forum. Findings will inform the development of larger-scale digitally based programs to improve the delivery of healthy pregnancy nutrition, physical activity and healthy GWG.
Interventions
Intervention group women will receive a tailored suite of intervention strategies focusing on healthy nutrition, physical activity and gestational weight gain (GWG) for 20 weeks from 16 weeks gestation. This includes: tailored mobile phone text and video messages; mobile phone texts promoting goal setting and self-monitoring; print and accessible website nutrition, physical activity and GWG information; and a private moderated Facebook (Registered Trademark) chat forum. The tailored text and vid
Intervention group women will receive a tailored suite of intervention strategies focusing on healthy nutrition, physical activity and gestational weight gain (GWG) for 20 weeks from 16 weeks gestation. This includes: tailored mobile phone text and video messages; mobile phone texts promoting goal setting and self-monitoring; print and accessible website nutrition, physical activity and GWG information; and a private moderated Facebook (Registered Trademark) chat forum. The tailored text and video messages will be sent three times weekly and the self monitoring and goal setting messages one to two times weekly reflecting participants self monitoring frequency choice. Women randomised to the control group will continue to receive standard antenatal care.
Sponsors
Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Women with a singleton, live gestation between 10+0-17+6 weeks at the first hospital antenatal visit who have a pre-pregnancy BMI>25kg/m2 and mobile phone ownership.
Exclusion criteria
< 18 years of age; comorbidities requiring medical and dietary management eg type 1 and 2 diabetes; or insufficient English.
Outcome results
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