Effect of an Internet-Based Program on Weight Loss for Low-Income Postpartum Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Postpartum weight retention increases lifetime risk of obesity and related morbidity. Few effective interventions exist for multicultural, low-income women.

Objective

To test whether an internet-based weight loss program in addition to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC program) for low-income postpartum women could produce greater weight loss than the WIC program alone over 12 months.

Design, setting, and participants

A 12-month, cluster randomized, assessor-blind, clinical trial enrolling 371 adult postpartum women at 12 clinics in WIC programs from the California central coast between July 2011 and May 2015 with data collection completed in May 2016.

Interventions

Clinics were randomized to the WIC pro

SUBMITTER: Phelan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815021 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature