NCT01610752

Personalized Management of Body Weight During Pregnancy

Expecting Success: Personalized Management of Body Weight During Pregnancy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how to help manage weight gain during pregnancy. This study is part of the National Consortium 'LIFE-Moms: Lifestyle interventions in expectant moms'. LIFE-Moms is 7 studies funded to test different lifestyle interventions in overweight and obese pregnant women.

Detailed description

The study will last 22 months, from screening until study completion. The entire study will include 3 screening visits, receipt of weight management advice, second trimester testing, third trimester testing and three follow up visits during the first year after the baby is born. Participants will randomly be assigned to 1 of 3 programs to help manage their weight during pregnancy: 1. Physician Directed group 2. SmartMoms-Clinic group 3. SmartMoms-Phone group

Conditions

• Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SmartMoms	This intervention will cover many topics to help you learn about weight management during pregnancy. You will be taught how to use different tools provided to help you monitor your weight. We will ask you to record your body weight (using a scale we will provide) as well as your food intake and exercise habits.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2012-06-04
• Last updated: 2021-09-17
• Results posted: 2018-12-12

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States