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Evaluation of the effect of high-dose vitamin C use in covid 19 positive pregnants
More than 50% of pregnant women are considered to have a BMI that is classified as overweight or obese when they present for antenatal care. Overweight and obesity in pregnancy is associated with complications and poorer health outcomes for mothers and their babies, as well as risk for excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention, increasing the likelihood of long-term obesity for these women. There is also evidence that excess maternal weight and weight gain in pregnancy is associated with obesity in the offspring from early childhood through to adolescence. There is an urgent need for simple, effective interventions targeting lifestyle which can be delivered during routine healthcare. The overall aim of this study is to pilot test the delivery of a brief, habit-based weight management intervention, 'Healthy Habits In Pregnancy and Beyond', for pregnant women with overweight and obesity (body mass index between 25.0 & <38.0 kg/m2) in early pregnancy, to gather preliminary information on the intervention and to establish the feasibility and acceptability of delivering this intervention into routine antenatal care and existing antenatal care pathways across four geographical locations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This study is a two-arm randomised controlled feasibility study. Healthcare staff in four partner sites will be trained in introducing the study to the target sample and in delivering the intervention. 80 women will be recruited and randomised to control (n=40) or intervention group (n=40) (20 at each site). Women randomised to the intervention group will receive a brief intervention to encourage the development of ten healthy habits in relation to diet, physical activity and weight management, plus their local routine antenatal care. The intervention will be delivered by a designated midwife at each site or a member of the research team, and is aimed to be integrated into appointments already attended by women as part of routine antenatal care. Women randomised to the control group will receive their local routine antenatal care.
We hypothesized: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the sleep quality of pregnant women decreases. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the stress level of pregnant women increases. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the level of physical activity of pregnant women decreases. Aims: The aim of the study is to determine the sleep quality, stress level and physical activity level of pregnant women who maintain the home quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pregnancy is associated with a myriad of physiologic changes, including expansion of blood volume, decrease in oncotic pressure, and increased cardiac output. The obstetric population is associated with intrapartum hemorrhage. Accordingly, it is important to have an accurate method to assess fluid status in intrapartum patients. The use of standard volume assessment tools including arterial lines and central venous catheters is limited given the brevity of obstetric procedures and the morbidity of these techniques on the awake patients, and the costs. Non-invasive methods to assess volume status (carotid dopplers, direct measurement of blood loss, bio-impedance devices) are imperfect. Echocardiography is an attractive tool to measure fluid status in experienced operators such as anesthesiologists. IVC diameter and variation of aortic velocity time integral are two measures that can be obtained via echocardiography and been studied in spontaneously breathing patients. The purpose of this study is to determine whether these measurements can be used in the assessment of volume status in the laboring patient.
The current recommendations for dietary amino acid intake in pregnant women are based on calculations from requirements of adult men. The study aims to determine methionine requirements during early (11-20 weeks) and late (31-38 weeks) stages of pregnancy. Methionine, an essential amino acid (building block of body protein), is necessary for protein synthesis and for DNA related cellular functions. A non-invasive, novel method based on different diets, stable isotopes (the safe kind) and simple breath collection will be used. This method has recently been used by our laboratory to study other amino acids during pregnancy.
Multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, pilot randomised controlled trial with an embedded factorial design.
Lack of standardized verbal counseling prior to an induction of labor can leave many patients feeling uninformed and unprepared. The purpose of this blinded, randomized controlled trial was to compare video vs verbal counseling in a cohort of patients undergoing an induction of labor. Here, an 11 minute and 30 second counseling video was created to counsel patients on the finer intricacies of an induction of labor. Patients were randomized to two groups: verbal counseling and video + verbal counseling. Patients were randomized just prior to beginning their induction of labor. After receiving verbal counseling or verbal and video counseling, patients completed a survey analyzing their awareness of the counseling process.
The Expecting intervention as delivered in prior studies in a clinical setting is described in a previous approved IRB submission (Protocol 202954). The current project will seek to engage community stakeholders to translate Expecting to a community-delivered intervention and to test its acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity in a proof of principle study with 60 expecting mothers.
Non-inferiority randomized trial of 5,500 women with a cesarean delivery randomized prior to discharge to either an individualized opioid prescription protocol (IOPP) that includes shared decision making or to a fixed opioid prescription of 20 tablets of oxycodone 5mg.