NCT04291560

Promoting Stretching Exercise to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Risk in Late Pregnant Women With Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 224 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to determine whether a stretching intervention is superior to a usual care control condition (moderate/vigorous activity 30 minutes daily, 5 days per week) for pregnant women from 27 to 37 gestational weeks.

Detailed description

Although being sedentary can lead to excess risk for maternal and child mortality and morbidity, most pregnant women reduce their physical activity and only 8% meet the recommendations in the 3rd trimester. In a prior randomized control trial, it was found that fewer women who stretched developed preeclampsia than did women who walked (3/60 "stretchers" vs. 10/64 "walkers", p=.05). In this study, participants will either receive a stretching intervention

Conditions

• Pregnancy Related
• Cardiovascular Risk Factor
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stretching Exercise Intervention	Sequential static stretching of the large skeletal muscle group 5 days per week. Each skeletal group is stretched for 20 seconds for 3 repetitions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-01
• Primary completion: 2024-10-23
• Completion: 2024-12-20
• First posted: 2020-03-02
• Last updated: 2025-11-19
• Results posted: 2025-11-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States