The Effects of Peer-led Walking Intervention With mHealth Technology

The Effects of Peer-led Walking Intervention With mHealth Technology for Physical Activity and Prenatal Health Outcomes

This study will apply the peer-led walking intervention with mHealth technology to maintain physical activity and promote prenatal health. Moreover, the participants of the trained peer mentors support women walking with mHealth technology, which has pregnant women using the APP to set goals, self-monitor, and self-manage, and it will continue to promote physical activity for overweight and obese pregnant women

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: mHealth Intervention
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: mhealth

Detailed Description

This study was to investigate the effectiveness of peer-led walking intervention with mHealth technology on physical activity, self-efficacy, weekly steps, exercise involvement and depression status. Participants of the trained peer mentors encourage women walking with mHealth technology, which has pregnant women using the APP to set goals, self-record, and self-monitor, and it will continue to promote physical activity for overweight and obese pregnant women.This study's results will be useful to healthcare providers who need to promote physical exercise and an active lifestyle for overweight and obese pregnant women.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 90
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • New Taipei City, Taiwan
    • Department of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 20 years to 40 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• women who had a pre-pregnancy body mass index of more than 25 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Participants were used app to record their diet and steps every day; Experimental group was the mHealth with peer led to improved their physical activity during pregnancy. Participants received app to record and monitor their physical activity every days and using it until childbirth.	Behavioral: mhealth; the peer-led intervention with mHealth technology (an application (APP) and Sports bracelet)
No Intervention: non-mhealth; control group was the traditional prenatal care during pregnancy.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
physical activity	physical activity (pregnancy physical activity questionnaire)	throughout childbirth, average of 20-30 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chin-Tsung Shen
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ching-Fang Lee, PhD, Mackay Medical College

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 25, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 21, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): August 26, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 18, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 15, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: LCF MOST 109-110

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No