Building Social Networks to Enhance Postpartum Weight Loss and Appropriate Infant Feeding Practices

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Building Social Networks to Enhance Postpartum Weight Loss and Appropriate Infant Feeding Practices

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01081340
• Other study ID #: IRB00034677
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2010
• Est. completion date: August 2011

Study information

• Verified date: August 2018
• Source: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether we can use social networks to spread health information and health behaviors that 1) support women in returning to their pre-pregnancy weight after delivery; and 2) promote healthy infant feeding practices.

Description:

The long-term goal of this research is to prevent obesity-related adverse health outcomes for future generations by applying information emerging from social network studies to the development of new population-based behavioral interventions. There are a number of critical periods during fetal and infant development that appear to influence the later development of obesity. Interventions that prevent insult to these critical windows from occurring could improve children's life course trajectories. This project sets the groundwork for examining whether social networks could explicitly be utilized to prevent obesity from developing by transmitting health information and health behaviors that 1) prevent postpartum weight retention in first time mothers and 2) promote appropriate infant feeding practices. The secondary aim is to assess which individual-level network-related characteristics best predict postpartum body composition and infant feeding practices.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 41
• Est. completion date: August 2011
• Est. primary completion date: August 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Latina (self-defined, or born in Central or South America)

• Spanish-speaking and/or English-speaking,

• 18 years of age or older

• less than 24 weeks pregnant

• did or did not have a termination of a previous pregnancy before 20 weeks

• has not carried a pregnancy to term

• normal, overweight or obese (pre-pregnancy BMI >18.5 and <39)

Exclusion Criteria:

• non-Latina,

• non-Spanish-speaking or non-English speaking

• less than 18 years of age

• more than 24 weeks pregnant

• had a termination of a previous pregnancy after 20 weeks

• multiparous

• underweight (pre-pregnancy BMI < 18.5)

• morbidly obese (pre-pregnancy BMI = 39)

• currently enrolled in another program that targets weight, physical activity, or nutrition

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Weight Loss

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Social network building intervention
Group support and health education sessions weekly during third trimester and once every two weeks until 6 months postpartum
• Home visit
Three home visits during third trimester and three during postpartum period until 6 months postpartum

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Coleman Regional Community Center - Parks & Rec Department	Nashville	Tennessee

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	American Heart Association

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Weight (kg)	gestational weight gain and postpartum weight loss	6 times over 10 months
Secondary	Body composition	BIA postpartum	3 times over 6 months
Secondary	Infant feeding practices	duration of breastfeeding, use of supplemental fluids, overfeeding, timing of the introduction of solids	3 times over 6 months
Secondary	Social network structure	number and type of relationships	6 times over 10 months
Secondary	Waist Circumference		3 times over 6 months
Secondary	Depression		6 times over 10 months
Secondary	Nutrition	Fat/Fruit/Vegetable intake	6 times over 10 months
Secondary	Physical Activity	self-report	6 times over 10 months