A Home Exercise Program for Women With Infants & Young Children

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: MomZing Exercise Videos Online, Standard Exercise DVD

In brief

This Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer(STTR) project will develop and test the effectiveness of an interactive web program optimized for use on a Internet connected television(TV), titled Moms Exercising or (MomZing) that is designed specifically for women with infants 2-8 months old. Moms will select from a menu of 98, 10-minute exercise videos demonstrating yoga, aerobics, and strengthening exercises. They select and sequence together exercise videos personalized to their fitness level, form of exercise, and the choice to actively exercise with her baby or alone. The primary health goal of the MomZing Program is to increase home-based Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MPVA) minutes per week in new mothers and to maintain their exercise increases over time as their baby grows. The investigators hypothesize that women that use the MomZing Program will have greater increases in physical activity and fewer will return to cigarette smoking or alcohol use, compared to women who use a standard "mommy and me" exercise DVD.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01738984

Run by

University of Hawaii

People needed

499

Starts

2012-12-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• woman aged 18-45 who has an infant 2-8 months old (who weighs 11-22 lbs)
• live in one of the 50 states in US
• have broadband, high speed wireless internet access at home
• have high definition, flat screen TV at home
• have DVD player at home
• sedentary (<30 minutes of exercise per week)
• BMI between 17-40
• healthy woman
• healthy infant
• likes to learn about new technology

You may not qualify if…

• woman has health problems: pregnant or planning to become pregnant in next 3 months, dizziness/loss of consciousness, bone/joint problems that would be made worse by exercise, cancer, coronary heart disease (chest pain),insulin dependent diabetic, exercise -induced asthma or other atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, on medication for heart condition/high blood pressure, doctor has limited the amount of physical exertion/exercising.
• Baby has health problems -a chronic illness/disorder that would prevent mother from holding or lifting him/her in her arms while exercising
• Woman cannot read/write English
• woman unable or unwilling to connect a device to her television at home to link it to her home's wireless network

Where it is running

• Cheryl Albright, PhD, MPH — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• University of Hawaii at Manoa — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

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