Association between consistent weight gain tracking and gestational weight gain: Secondary analysis of a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The effective components of interventions for reducing excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) remain to be identified. This study investigated the sociodemographic, physical, psychosocial, and environmental correlates of online GWG tracking and its independent association with GWG outcomes.

Methods

Eight hundred ninety-eight women in the intervention arms of a randomized trial assessing the effectiveness of an integrated online and mobile phone behavioral intervention to decrease the prevalence of excessive GWG were included in this secondary analysis. Data were analyzed using χ² analysis and modified Poisson and linear regression approaches.

Results

Only 16.5% of low-income (Medicaid-eligible) women consistently tracked GWG, as did 34.2% of not-

SUBMITTER: Olson CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504884 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature