Weight Management in Obese Pregnant Underserved African American Women

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Conditions studied: Obesity, Pregnancy, Weight Gain

In brief

This project will test a novel lifestyle intervention to help overweight and obese socioeconomically disadvantaged African American women achieve healthy weight control during and after pregnancy and improve the health of their offspring. The treatment will be given through an existing national home visiting program, Parents As Teachers (PAT), which will facilitate sustainability and nationwide dissemination, if effective. We hypothesize that compared with standard PAT monitoring and counseling (PAT), women randomized to the lifestyle intervention program (PAT+) will have a lower percentage who exceed Institute of Medicine recommendations for gestational weight gain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01768793

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

267

Starts

2012-10-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pregnant, African American, Socioeconomically disadvantaged
• Established prenatal care at our clinic before 15-6/7 weeks gestation
• Singleton viable pregnancy
• Gestational age 9 to 15 weeks
• Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25-45 kg/m²

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of diabetes prior to pregnancy, or test results suggestive of pre-pregnancy diabetes
• Current use of certain medications
• Contraindications to aerobic exercise in pregnancy
• History of contraindicated medical conditions

Where it is running

• Washington University School of Medicine — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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