Strengthening health promotion: enhanced check-up visits for mother and child
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- E66Obesity
- Registration Number
- DRKS00013173
- Lead Sponsor
- Plattform Ernährung und Bewegung e.V. (peb)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 1466
Inclusion Criteria
signed written informed consent form
- 18 years or older
- pregnant between 8th to 12th week of gestation
- must live in one of the 10 study regions
- intervention group: medically supervised by a gynecologist in one of the 10 study regions in Baden-Württemberg
- insured at a statutory health insurer
- no symptoms of depression (EPDS-Score = 9, Item 10 < 3)
- sufficient german language skills or adequate language comprehension.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion of participants because of pre-existing conditions or poor general state of health is at the discretion of the physician.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reduction of the proportion of women experiencing excessive gestational weight gain during pregnancy. The data are collected at the regular check-ups (4 times) and entered by the gynecologist and / or physician assistant into a data platform specially developed for the project.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient-related: health literacy, maternal lifestyle and mental health are assessed based on the above-mentioned survey.<br><br>Pregnancy and childbirth complications and weight development of mother and child are assessed at each regular check-up (4 with the gynecologists, 3 with midwives and 5 with pediatricians) using the data platform.<br><br>Effects on the use of health services is assessed by routine data of the cooperating health insurances.<br><br>System-related: process of implementation of GeMuKi and supporting and hindering factors for implementation are assessed at the beginning and end of the project by means telephone interviews with healthcare providers, physician assistant's and participating women of the intervention group.