Antenatal Factors Impacting Obesity and Metabolism in Children: Sub-objective 2D
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
The Expecting intervention as delivered in prior studies in a clinical setting is described in a previous approved IRB submission (Protocol 202954). The current project will seek to engage community stakeholders to translate Expecting to a community-delivered intervention and to test its acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity in a proof of principle study with 60 expecting mothers.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: Female
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• (a) Body Mass Index \> 30,
• (b) singleton pregnancy,
• (c) between 11-15 weeks of pregnancy (at enrollment),
• (d) Do not currently meet recommended guidelines of 150 min of activity per week
• (e) cleared by physician
Locations
United States
Arkansas
Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center
RECRUITING
Little Rock
Contact Information
Primary
Taren Swindle, PhD
tswindle@uams.edu
501-526-7058
Time Frame
Start Date: 2021-07-16
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-06
Participants
Target number of participants: 60
Treatments
Experimental: Exercise in Pregnancy in Community
The Expecting intervention at the ACNC includes three 30-45 minute, in-person exercise sessions per week. The sessions are gradually increased in length over the first weeks of participation, and are comprised of 15-30 minutes of moderate aerobic activity (recumbent bike, walking on a treadmill or on an elliptical machine) as well as 5-10 minutes of resistance training using hydraulic exercise equipment. The sessions conclude with stretching exercises. Throughout the session, a personal trainer assesses the rating of perceived exertion using the 6 to 20 point Borg scale of exhaustion.41 Between sessions, participants are asked to monitor their daily step count with a target of 10,000 steps per day using a pedometer provided to the participant. This number is reported to or downloaded by the personal trainer at each in-person session. These elements will be adapted to provide a similar exercise experience that is accessible to women in their local community.
No_intervention: Standard Care
Participants will receive guidance on exercise from their physician as usual.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute