Physical Activity — Healthy Mom Zone: A Gestational Weight Gain Management Intervention
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Devlin CA, Huberty J, Downs DS Influences of prior miscarriage and weight status on perinatal psychological well-being, exercise motivation and behavior. Midwifery. 2016 Dec;43:29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2016.10.010. Epub 2016 Oct 29.
Dong Y, Deshpande S, Rivera DE, Downs DS, Savage JS Hybrid Model Predictive Control for Sequential Decision Policies in Adaptive Behavioral Interventions. Proc Am Control Conf. 2014 Jun;2014:4198-4203. doi: 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859462.
Downs DS, Devlin CA, Rhodes RE The Power of Believing: Salient Belief Predictors of Exercise Behavior in Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obese Pregnant Women. J Phys Act Health. 2015 Aug;12(8):1168-76. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2014-0262. Epub 2014 Nov 19.
Downs DS, Savage JS, Rauff EL Falling Short of Guidelines? Nutrition and Weight Gain Knowledge in Pregnancy. J Womens Health Care. 2014;3:1000184. doi: 10.4172/2167-0420.1000184.
Guo P, Rivera DE, Downs DS, Savage JS Semi-physical Identification and State Estimation of Energy Intake for Interventions to Manage Gestational Weight Gain. Proc Am Control Conf. 2016 Jul;2016:1271-1276. doi: 10.1109/ACC.2016.7525092. Epub 2016 Aug 1.
Guo P, Rivera DE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Savage JS, Downs DS A "Model-on-Demand" Methodology For Energy Intake Estimation to Improve Gestational Weight Control Interventions. Proc IFAC World Congress. 2018;51(15):144-149. doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.105. Epub 2018 Oct 8.
Guo P, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Downs DS State Estimation Under Correlated Partial Measurement Losses: Implications for Weight Control Interventions. Proc IFAC World Congress. 2017 Jul;50(1):13532-13537. doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2347. Epub 2017 Oct 18.
Guo P, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Hohman EE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Downs DS System Identification Approaches For Energy Intake Estimation: Enhancing Interventions For Managing Gestational Weight Gain. IEEE Trans Control Syst Technol. 2020 Jan;28(1):63-78. doi: 10.1109/TCST.2018.2871871. Epub 2018 Oct 12.
Leonard KS, Symons Downs D Low prenatal resting energy expenditure and high energy intake predict high gestational weight gain in pregnant women with overweight/obesity. Obes Res Clin Pract. 2022 Jul-Aug;16(4):281-287. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2022.07.003. Ep
Rauff EL, Downs DS A Prospective Examination of Physical Activity Predictors in Pregnant Women with Normal Weight and Overweight/Obesity. Womens Health Issues. 2018 Nov-Dec;28(6):502-508. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2018.09.003. Epub 2018 Oct 15.
Rauff EL, Downs DS Mobile Health Technology in Prenatal Care: Understanding OBGYN Providers' Beliefs about Using Technology to Manage Gestational Weight Gain. J Technol Behav Sci. 2019 Mar;4(1):17-24. doi: 10.1007/s41347-018-0068-0. Epub 2018 Aug 15.
Savage JS, Downs DS, Dong Y, Rivera DE Control systems engineering for optimizing a prenatal weight gain intervention to regulate infant birth weight. Am J Public Health. 2014 Jul;104(7):1247-54. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301959. Epub 2014 May 15.
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