Randomized trial of a behavioral intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain: the Fit for Delivery Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive weight gain during pregnancy is a major risk factor for postpartum weight retention and future weight gain and obesity in women, but few adequately powered randomized controlled trials have examined the efficacy of a behavioral weight-control intervention during pregnancy.

Objective

This study examined whether a behavioral intervention during pregnancy could decrease the proportion of women who exceeded the 1990 Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations for gestational weight gains and increase the proportion of women who returned to pregravid weights by 6 mo postpartum.

Design

This study was a randomized, assessor-blind, controlled trial. Participants were pregnant (13.5 wk gestation), normal-weight (NW; n = 201) and overweight or obese (OW/OB;

SUBMITTER: Phelan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3057546 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature