Managing Weight in Pregnancy (NCT01770522) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedNot Applicable
Managing Weight in Pregnancy
United Kingdom368 participantsStarted 2013-01
Plain-language summary
It is well known that being overweight or obese increases the risk of health problems, and that many people find it difficult to maintain a healthy weight. Worryingly the rise in obesity is greater in women than in the male population. One possible reason for this is that some women gain too much weight during their pregnancy and find it difficult to lose this weight after the birth of their baby. For example, women who gain more weight than recommended during pregnancy have been shown to be more likely to carry excess that weight at 1 and 15 years after pregnancy, compared to women who gained the recommended amount of weight.
There are currently no evidence-based guidelines in the UK for how weight should be managed during pregnancy. For these reasons, it is really important that we understand the factors affecting weight management before, during and after pregnancy.
The aim of this research is therefore to find successful approaches to help women manage their weight before, during and after pregnancy. This will be completed by understanding the knowledge, attitudes, experiences and expectations of women during and after pregnancy and to identify the factors (e.g. diet, physical activity, poor social network etc.) which influence body weight. This will enable us to suggest better strategies for promoting healthy weight changes during and after pregnancy.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Participants will be pregnant women at 12 or 20 weeks pregnancy attending the 12 and 20 week antenatal scanning clinics at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
* Participants will be able to give informed consent- Participants will be over the age of 18
* Participants will be able to read English - due to the nature of the study we will not be able to print the questionnaires in various languages.
* Participants will be of any sociodemographic backgrounds, bodyweights and parity.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Participants who do not feel that their literacy or English language skills will enable them to complete the questionnaires will be offered the opportunity to have one of the research team read the questions and fill in the answers for them. Whilst doing this and being sensitive to literacy and language issues, the nature of this feasibility study means that the research team will not offer an interpreting service or produce documents in languages other than English.
* Participants will be excluded from the postnatal phase of the study if they deliver their baby prematurely (before 37 weeks of gestation) or do not give birth to a live baby. These exclusions are required, as premature birth or fetal loss/still birth would be expected to have an impact on psychological and physiological aspects linked to weight management which are not relevant to our specific research objectives. Information on birth outcome will be gained by accessing hospital records, …
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What they're measuring
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Weight change during pregnancy and postnatal period