None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The study aims to determine if a comprehensive behavioural lifestyle intervention promoting physical activity and encouraging healthy diet can achieve short-term behaviour change in overweight/obese women with a recent history of gestational diabetes, in a real world setting.
Interventions
Behavioural strategies to increase physical activity and improve diet over a period of 6 months:
ADOPTION PHASE: individualised one hour face-to-face counseling session with a dietitian addressing diet and physical activity, followed by telephone follow-up and a second one hour face-to-face counseling session one month later. Each participant’s baseline behaviors, health priorities and barriers to action will be used to assist in setting behavior change goals. A further telephone call, 2 text me
Behavioural strategies to increase physical activity and improve diet over a period of 6 months: ADOPTION PHASE: individualised one hour face-to-face counseling session with a dietitian addressing diet and physical activity, followed by telephone follow-up and a second one hour face-to-face counseling session one month later. Each participant’s baseline behaviors, health priorities and barriers to action will be used to assist in setting behavior change goals. A further telephone call, 2 text messages and a postcard will be used as additional means of reinforcement over the first 3 months. MAINTENANCE PHASE: In the second 3 months there will be 3 further telephone calls, 3 mobile text messages, and 3 more postcards. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY will be monitored by accelerometer and the Active Australia Questionnaire. DIETARY BEHAVIOUR will be assessed by diet histories and 3 day food records.
Sponsors
Westmead Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
women with gestational diabetes in the previous 3-36 months overweight or obese report an intention to adopt changes in physical activity or diet
Exclusion criteria
already has diabetes currently pregnant or planning pregnancy within the next 6 months unable to or unfit to exercise due to chronic illness on medication which may affect glucose or weight control women who are precontemplators (ie not wanting to change) as defined by the behaviour change model poor written and spoken english proficiency
Outcome results
None listed