Preventing Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Via Short Mobile Messages in WIC

• Sponsor: University of Hawaii (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT04330976
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 83
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 19.1
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 4.4

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The objective of this trial was to investigate the effect of educational short message service (SMS), or text messages, on gestational weight gain (GWG) in a low-income population.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Gestational Weight Gain	Behavioral: Nutrition and physical activity intervention; Behavioral: Control	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 83 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Care Provider)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Preventing Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Via Short Mobile Messages in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
• Actual Study Start Date: Oct 30, 2017
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Oct 29, 2018
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jun 2, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Nutrition and physical activity intervention	Behavioral: Nutrition and physical activity intervention; Messages sent on nutrition and physical activity in pregnancy
Other: Control	Behavioral: Control; Messages sent on general health during pregnancy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Change between pre-pregnancy weight and last weight taken before delivery [From date of randomization until delivery of child (e.g. up to 25 weeks)]

   Total weight gained during pregnancy

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• 15-20 weeks gestational age and 18 years of age or older at time of recruitment

• body mass index (BMI) of 25-45 kg/m2 in the first trimester

• possession of a cellular phone with the ability to receive text messages without a charge

Exclusion Criteria:

• conditions requiring a special diet

• multiparous pregnancies

• unable to consent to participate

• unwilling to be randomized

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Hawaii	Honolulu	Hawaii	United States	96822

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Hawaii

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: University of Hawaii
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04330976
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5U54MD008149-09
• First Posted: Apr 2, 2020
• Last Update Posted: Apr 2, 2020
• Last Verified: Mar 1, 2020

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Body Weight; Weight Gain; Gestational Weight Gain

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 2, 2020