NCT00942097

Homeopathic Medication and Nutritional Oriented Diet to Treat Overweight Pregnant Women With Mental Disorder

Homeopathic Treatment in Pregnant Women With Overweight and Mental Disorder: a Double Blinded Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 134 (actual)
• Sponsor: Edgard Costa de Vilhena · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of homeopathic treatment in pregnant women with overweight and class I obesity with suspicion of a mental disorder.

Detailed description

The weight gain during pregnancy has been reported as an important factor of being overweight after delivery and comorbidities. There are a lot of restrictions to treat pregnant women due to fetus development. Homeopathy presents itself as an integrative medicine that could treat with less collateral effects improving general health. The investigators are going to test the effects of homeopathy.

Conditions

• Overweight
• Pregnancy
• Mental Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Sulph, Puls, Lyc, Lack t, Con, Sep, Nux v, Calc c, Phos	CH 12 preparation, 6 drops, twice a day, 4 days per week, until the end of pregnancy. One medication per appointment.
DRUG	Homeopathy and Nutritional oriented diet	Homeopathy 6 drops twice a day 4 days per week, active and placebo and Balanced nutritional oriented diet for both groups.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-08-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2009-07-20
• Last updated: 2013-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil