Barriers and facilitators to uptake and retention of inner-city ethnically diverse women in a postnatal weight management intervention: a mixed-methods process evaluation within a feasibility trial in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the barriers and facilitators to uptake and retention of postnatal women randomised to a commercial group weight management intervention using the COM-B (capability, opportunity, motivation and behaviour) behaviour change model.

Design

Concurrent mixed-methods (qualitative dominant) process evaluation nested within a feasibility randomised controlled trial, comprising questionnaires and interviews at 6 and 12 months postbirth.

Setting

One National Health Service maternity unit in an inner city area in the south of England.

Participants

98 postnatal women with body mass indices>25 kg/m² (overweight/obese) at pregnancy commencement.

Intervention

Twelve-week Slimming World (SW) commercial group weight management programme

SUBMITTER: Taylor C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7375430 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature