The effectiveness of an online intervention in preventing excessive gestational weight gain: the e-moms roc randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is common and contributes to the development of obesity in women and their offspring. Electronic or e-health interventions have the potential to reach large groups of women and prevent excessive GWG, but their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate, in a real-world setting, the effectiveness of a self-directed, integrated online and mobile phone behavioral intervention in preventing excessive GWG.

Methods

This effectiveness trial was a double-blind, three-arm trial with a parallel group design. Two arms received the same e-health intervention during pregnancy with the third arm serving as the placebo control. The intervention was based on a previously efficacious non-digital interv

SUBMITTER: Olson CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5944067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature