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Background: Physical activity (PA) has beneficial effects on health, physical condition, and the maintenance of autonomy and independence at all ages of life. It also has numerous benefits during pregnancy: maintenance or improvement of physical condition, prevention of excessive weight gain, aid in postpartum weight loss, prevention of gestational hypertension, reduction in number of macrosomic infants at birth, reduction in lower back and pelvic pain, and prevention and improvement of postpartum depressive symptoms. A recent systematic review of the literature concluded that interventions to increase PA levels among pregnant women have a positive effect on this level. The studies included in the review also showed that these interventions have a positive effect on these women's well-being and their mental and physical health. Nonetheless, no study has examined this subject in France. Moreover, to our knowledge, no study in the international literature has looked at online interactive video sessions of PA during pregnancy. Overall, few studies allow an assessment of the effect of sedentary behavior and inadequate PA during pregnancy on maternal, neonatal, or infant outcomes. This is equally true for the health of adults whose mothers were physically active during pregnancy. Moreover, we do not know the actual level of PA of women in France. Finally, we do not know what types of intervention described in the literature would enable the best adherence by French women to their initiation or maintenance of an adequate PA level. Study hypothesis: Our hypothesis is that setting up a free program of physical and sports activity session for pregnant women will enable them to meet the guidelines for PA practice during this period and to reduce their sedentary behavior. Objectives: 1.1. Principal objective To study the feasibility of setting up physical activity (PA) sessions for pregnant women during their prenatal care, by assessing its acceptability, the perceived difficulty of the sessions, and their satisfaction with these sessions. 1.2. Secondary objectives - To evaluate the effect of these sessions: - on the PA level and sedentary behavior of pregnant women, - on their quality of life (QoL). - The feasibility and impact of the sessions will be studied according to their PA level at inclusion: active or inactive. - To identify the facilitators of and obstacles to the acceptability of these sessions, other than those studied in the objectives above. - To measure the willingness to pay of pregnant women so that we can quantify how much they would be willing to pay for such a program, were it were not free. Willingness to pay (measured in €) makes it possible to measure indirectly the acceptability of the program to the participants and the monetary value they attribute to it.


Clinical Trial Description

Type of study: Prospective interventional cohort feasibility study of PA sessions for pregnant women. Number of centers: 1 One center: the Clermont-Ferrand university hospital center Study description: The study is based on voluntary participation in organized sessions of PA. For each woman the program will comprise 51 sessions (for a woman giving birth after 39 weeks of gestation) with three sessions a week starting between 21+6 d and 23+6 d weeks through 39+0 d weeks. Women will be asked to attend all three sessions each week. Each session will include a maximum of 5 women and will last for 45 minutes, with 30 minutes of endurance (aerobic) PA, as well as muscle (strength) training and some stretching. They will also include advice to women to limit their sedentary time and to allow them to perform PA outside of these sessions with an instructor. In addition to the mandatory weekly session in person, two sessions will be proposed as interactive video classes. A Zoom® link will be offered to the women so that they can connect to these two weekly sessions, taught by the adapted PA (APA) professional who teaches the in-person sessions. These sessions will have the same format as the in-person session (45 minutes) with viewing of both the APA professional (trainer/coach) and the participants (who can choose to be masked). The APA professional will also see the participants and thus can at any time correct their positions and give them individualized advice. Study plan and procedures: The women will be informed about the study from their first trimester of pregnancy. If they want to participate in the study and the PA sessions, they must contact the research midwife. Before their first participation in a PA session, each woman will meet with the research midwife, who will review with her the information about the study, verify the eligibility criteria, and obtain her written informed consent. During the first session, the woman will perform two physical ability tests (described below) with the APA instructor, to determine her initial PA level and her physical capacities. At the end of each session, the instructor will record the women present or connected and evaluate the perceived difficulty of the session by having the women complete in their notebooks the Borg rating of perceived exertion, the scale of intensity according to the affective valence, and the conversation test. At the end of the sixth month of gestation (28 weeks), the women will retake these physical ability tests with the instructor, complete the self-administered acceptability questionnaires and the PPAQ on line or in person. At the end of the eighth month of gestation (37 weeks), the women will retake these physical ability tests with the instructor, complete the self-administered acceptability questionnaires, and the PPAQ, on line or in person. At the end of their personnal program, the women will complete on line or in person the self-administered acceptability and satisfaction questionnaires and the WHOQOL-Brief. A short semi-directive telephone interview will then be performed to identify the facilitators of and obstacles to acceptability. ;


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NCT number NCT05225376
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date April 28, 2022
Completion date February 27, 2023

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