Clinical trial NCT01081340: Building Social Networks to Enhance Postpartum Weight Loss and Appropriate Infant Feeding Practices
Official title: Building Social Networks to Enhance Postpartum Weight Loss and Appropriate Infant Feeding Practices
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Keywords: gestational weight gain
postpartum weight loss
breastfeeding
overfeeding
Lead sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: American Heart Association
First posted: 2010-03-05
Enrollment: 41
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to examine whether we can use social networks to spread health information and health behaviors that 1) support women in returning to their pre-pregnancy weight after delivery; and 2) promote healthy infant feeding practices.

Detailed description: The long-term goal of this research is to prevent obesity-related adverse health outcomes for future generations by applying information emerging from social network studies to the development of new population-based behavioral interventions. There are a number of critical periods during fetal and infant development that appear to influence the later development of obesity. Interventions that prevent insult to these critical windows from occurring could improve children's life course trajectories. This project sets the groundwork for examining whether social networks could explicitly be utilized to prevent obesity from developing by transmitting health information and health behaviors that 1) prevent postpartum weight retention in first time mothers and 2) promote appropriate infant feeding practices. The secondary aim is to assess which individual-level network-related characteristics best predict postpartum body composition and infant feeding practices.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Latina (self-defined, or born in Central or South America)
* Spanish-speaking and/or English-speaking,
* 18 years of age or older
* less than 24 weeks pregnant
* did or did not have a termination of a previous pregnancy before 20 weeks
* has not carried a pregnancy to term
* normal, overweight or obese (pre-pregnancy BMI \>18.5 and \<39)

Exclusion Criteria:

* non-Latina,
* non-Spanish-speaking or non-English speaking
* less than 18 years of age
* more than 24 weeks pregnant
* had a termination of a previous pregnancy after 20 weeks
* multiparous
* underweight (pre-pregnancy BMI \< 18.5)
* morbidly obese (pre-pregnancy BMI ≥ 39)
* currently enrolled in another program that targets weight, physical activity, or nutrition

Primary outcomes:
measure: Weight (kg)
timeFrame: 6 times over 10 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Body composition
timeFrame: 3 times over 6 months
measure: Infant feeding practices
timeFrame: 3 times over 6 months
measure: Social network structure
timeFrame: 6 times over 10 months
measure: Waist Circumference
timeFrame: 3 times over 6 months
measure: Depression
timeFrame: 6 times over 10 months
measure: Nutrition
timeFrame: 6 times over 10 months
measure: Physical Activity
timeFrame: 6 times over 10 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nashville
country: United States
facility: Coleman Regional Community Center - Parks & Rec Department
state: Tennessee
Study officials:
affiliation: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
name: Sabina B Gesell, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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