A Mobile Health Intervention to Achieve Appropriate Gestational Weight Gain in Overweight/Obese Women
Gestational Weight Gain
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Gestational Weight Gain focused on measuring Gestational weight gain, Lifestyle, Intervention, Body weight, Overweight, Obesity, Signs and Symptoms, Body weight changes
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant
- Women receiving prenatal care at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland and whose obstetric care clinicians consent to participate;
- Pregravid BMI 25 to <40 (as determined from a measured pregravid weight in electronic medical record);
- Has access to a smartphone and Wi-Fi;
- Provides informed consent to participate.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Multiple births;
- Planning to move out of the area during the study period;
- Inability to speak, read, or understand English;
- Placed on bed rest at time of enrollment; ->15 weeks' gestation at enrollment.
Sites / Locations
- Kaiser Permanente OaklandRecruiting
- Kaiser Permanente San FranciscoRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Lifestyle Intervention
Usual Care - Control
The goal of the intervention is to help women achieve GWG within the range recommended by the Institute of Medicine. The lifestyle intervention will be delivered through 1 telephone counseling session with a study dietician trained in motivational interviewing techniques, as well as through technology-based tools, automated text messages and weekly e-mails of core lifestyle intervention sessions. Personalized text messages and 1:1 telephone coaching sessions will be given to those who are not meeting the GWG guidelines.
Usual Medical Care