NCT00950235

Weight Management for Improved Pregnancy Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of a dietary intervention in pregnant women. Women who are obese will be invited to participate. The control arm will receive routine prenatal care and one in-person nutritional and dietary counseling session to promote healthy eating during their pregnancy. The intervention arm will receive a more intensive dietary program that will include in-person counseling and group support sessions. The goal of the intervention will be weight maintenance (weight at 2 weeks after delivery should be within 3% of baseline weight) and avoidance of postpartum weight retention

Conditions

• Obesity
• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Weight Management	Two individual counseling session on nutrition and once weekly group sessions including use of food diaries for the remaining weeks of their pregnancy
OTHER	Usual Care	Standard nutrition counseling from Health Plan

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2009-07-31
• Last updated: 2015-07-09
• Results posted: 2015-07-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States