NCT02239341

Effects of Two In-hospital Antepartum Interventions on Functional Ability and Quality of Life in Early Postpartum Women.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Western University, Canada · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current standard of care for pregnant women deemed to be high-risk often involves recommending varying levels of activity-restriction, up to and including hospitalization. High levels of activity-restriction can lead to physical deconditioning of the mother, which can be difficult to recover from after birth. The proposed study will investigate whether a mild muscular conditioning program conducted in bed and given to hospitalized activity-restricted high-risk pregnant women will improve functional ability, cardiovascular deconditioning and overall quality of life in the postpartum period compared to a control group with no in hospital bed-rest exercise program. We hypothesize that women with a in-hospital muscle conditioning program will be better able to perform functional ability tasks and activities of daily living than a control group with no exercise program.

Conditions

• High-Risk Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music Intervention	Music will be about 120 beats per minute and the participants will listen to the music while wearing head-phones in bed.
OTHER	Muscle Conditioning Intervention	Music will be about 120 beats per minute and the participants will listen to the music while wearing head-phones and also participate in the muscle conditioning program while in bed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-30
• Primary completion: 2017-11-30
• Completion: 2017-12-30
• First posted: 2014-09-12
• Last updated: 2023-12-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada