Impact of maternal education on response to lifestyle interventions to reduce gestational weight gain: individual participant data meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify if maternal educational attainment is a prognostic factor for gestational weight gain (GWG), and to determine the differential effects of lifestyle interventions (diet based, physical activity based or mixed approach) on GWG, stratified by educational attainment.

Design

Individual participant data meta-analysis using the previously established International Weight Management in Pregnancy (i-WIP) Collaborative Group database (https://iwipgroup.wixsite.com/collaboration). Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data Statement guidelines were followed.

Data sources

Major electronic databases, from inception to February 2017.

Eligibility criteria

Randomised controlled trials on diet and phy

SUBMITTER: O'Brien EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688690 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature