A Home Exercise Program for Women With Infants & Young Children
Condition: MomZing Exercise Videos Online; Standard Exercise DVD
Intervention: MomZing Web Program; Standard Exercise DVD
Intervention description: Online web platform that is accessed via a television connected to internet; Standard exercise DVD that demonstrates exercises a women does with an infant.
Phase: Phase 3
Study type: Interventional
Primary purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Enrollment: 499.0
Sex: Female
Minimum age: 18 Years
Maximum age: 45 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Keywords: exercise; video; DVD; mother; infant

Summary:

      This Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer(STTR) project will develop and test the
      effectiveness of an interactive web program optimized for use on a Internet connected
      television(TV), titled Moms Exercising or (MomZing) that is designed specifically for women
      with infants 2-8 months old. Moms will select from a menu of 98, 10-minute exercise videos
      demonstrating yoga, aerobics, and strengthening exercises. They select and sequence together
      exercise videos personalized to their fitness level, form of exercise, and the choice to
      actively exercise with her baby or alone. The primary health goal of the MomZing Program is
      to increase home-based Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MPVA) minutes per week in new
      mothers and to maintain their exercise increases over time as their baby grows.

      The investigators hypothesize that women that use the MomZing Program will have greater
      increases in physical activity and fewer will return to cigarette smoking or alcohol use,
      compared to women who use a standard "mommy and me" exercise DVD.
    

Eligibility criteria:

        Inclusion Criteria:

          -  woman aged 18-45 who has an infant 2-8 months old (who weighs 11-22 lbs)

          -  live in one of the 50 states in US

          -  have broadband, high speed wireless internet access at home

          -  have high definition, flat screen TV at home

          -  have DVD player at home

          -  sedentary (<30 minutes of exercise per week)

          -  BMI between 17-40

          -  healthy woman

          -  healthy infant

          -  likes to learn about new technology

        Exclusion Criteria:

          -  woman has health problems: pregnant or planning to become pregnant in next 3 months,
             dizziness/loss of consciousness, bone/joint problems that would be made worse by
             exercise, cancer, coronary heart disease (chest pain),insulin dependent diabetic,
             exercise -induced asthma or other atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, on
             medication for heart condition/high blood pressure, doctor has limited the amount of
             physical exertion/exercising.

          -  Baby has health problems -a chronic illness/disorder that would prevent mother from
             holding or lifting him/her in her arms while exercising

          -  Woman cannot read/write English

          -  woman unable or unwilling to connect a device to her television at home to link it to
             her home's wireless network