The Effects of mHealth Intervention on Health Empower of Overweight and Obese Women's Body Weight During Pregnancy
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Mackay Medical College
- Enrollment
- 92
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in body weight and gestational weight gain from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum
Study Overview
Brief Summary
evaluate the health empowerment program with mHealth to promote physical activity for overweight and obese pregnant women.
Detailed Description
This two-phase study develops an mhealth application (app) based on social-cognitive theory (SCT) and evaluates its effectiveness for overweight and obese women, which can help to prevent excessive GWG by enhancing optimal weight and healthy behavior during pregnancy.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 20 Years to 40 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •pregnant women--who have had, 8-12 weeks
- •pre-pregnancy body mass index > 25 kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
The standard antenatal treatments with no mHealth-based elements
controls received standard antenatal treatments with no mHealth-based elements
The mHealth-based program
The experimental group used the mHealth app and Mi Smart Band 5 on managing and preventing excessive GWG among overweight and obese women during pregnancy
Intervention: empowerment program with mHealth (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in body weight and gestational weight gain from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum
Time Frame: The data were collected before the intervention to childbirth: <16 week gestation, second trimester (24-26 weeks), third trimester (34-36 weeks), 6 months postpartum
measure body weight and calculated according to the IOM guidelines to know their the total and weekly values of excess or achieve the IOM's guidelines.
Secondary Outcomes
- control infant birthweight(The data were collected at childbirth)
- Change in physical activity before intervention to childbirth(The data were collected before the intervention to childbirth: <16 week gestation, second trimester (24-26 weeks), third trimester (34-36 weeks); The highest total scores was depend the participants' activities of METs.)
- self-efficacy related weight gain(The data were collected before the intervention to childbirth: <16 week gestation, second trimester (24-26 weeks), third trimester (34-36 weeks); The highest total scores was 125.)
Investigators
Chin-Tsung Shen
the Office of Research and Development
Mackay Medical College