How to Reach Women of Reproductive Age With Obesity to Support Weight Loss Before Pregnancy?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 99
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Participant recruitment feasibility
研究概览
简要总结
Researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a study to learn more about how best to reach out to women (age 18-45) who are thinking about a pregnancy in the next couple of years and currently have a BMI greater than 30 kg/m2.
Interested participants will be asked to complete a 15-minute survey. The survey will ask some more questions about their prior reproductive health history, opinions and experiences regarding lifestyle, weight and health. After completing the survey, researchers would like to arrange a time to complete a 20- to 30-minute semi-structured interview about their perceived health in the process of planning pregnancy.
详细描述
The purpose of this study is to learn the best ways to support healthful behaviors and weight loss prior to pregnancy. Researchers are also interested in what motivates or prevents women of reproductive age from engaging in a structured weight loss program. Participants will be asked for no more than an hour of their time to complete a brief survey and participate in an interview. This study is being conducted by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. This study is being paid for by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH).
At the end of the interview, study staff will also talk to participants about the opportunity to be referred to the Mass General Weight Center if they are interested in participating in a program now being offered there.
If participants elect to participate in a program at the weight center, researchers would then like to complete 2 more short interviews with these participants about that process. The first will be about 5 minutes and will take place just after the initial Weight Center Orientation, and the last will be about 10 minutes and take place after 3 months of participation. During this final interview, researchers will ask for participant opinions about the program that they have just participated in.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 45 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Women aged 18-45 years old,
- •BMI>30 mg/m2,
- •thinking about planning a pregnancy in the next 2 years
排除标准
- •Previous bariatric surgery,
- •currently pregnant
结局指标
主要结局
Participant recruitment feasibility
时间窗: 1 year
Feasibility determined by compiling the actual number of participants recruited divided by the time and resources necessary to achieve that number participants for each recruitment strategy.
次要结局
- Participants' attitudes and perceptions of their own health risks with regard to weight-related complications(1 year)
- Participant adherence during a structured weight loss program.(1 year)
- Participants' estimated time frame before trying to get pregnant and willingness to delay their pregnancy attempt in order to complete a structured weight loss program.(1 year)