A Mobile App Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Healthy Nutrition in Women Before and During Early Pregnancy: Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Unhealthy nutrition contributes to the worldwide rising prevalence of noncommunicable diseases. As most adverse reproductive outcomes originate during the periconception period, effective interventions targeting this period are needed. Therefore, we developed the lifestyle intervention Smarter Pregnancy to empower women to adapt a healthy diet prior to conception and during early pregnancy and performed a randomized controlled trial. OBJECTIVE:The objectives of this trial were to investigate compliance and effectiveness in women using the Smarter Pregnancy program. METHODS:Women aged between 18 and 45 years who were contemplating pregnancy or <13 weeks pregnant and their male partners living in the urban area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, were eligible for participation. After

SUBMITTER: van Dijk MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7260659 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature