Lifestyle interventions in overweight and obese postpartum women
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Effects of Exercise and Dietary Interventions in Overweight and Obese Postpartum Women on Weight Management and Health.
IRAS ID
252764
Contact name
Kirsty/KJES Elliott-Sale
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottingham Trent University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 28 days
Research summary
Research has shown that women who return to a healthy pre-pregnancy weight following childbirth experience improved health outcomes as well as positively influencing both their own and their offspring's health in subsequent pregnancies. However, on many occasions women fail to lose the weight gained during pregnancy and enter subsequent pregnancies as overweight or obese. Exercise and diet play a crucial role in helping postpartum women lose weight gained during pregnancy. Lifestyle (exercise and diet) interventions have had varied success in postpartum women and in many cases, a lot of women drop out before the end of the programme. A lack of individualised support and face-to-face contact with the research team have been proposed as reasons for these high levels of drop outs. Recently, technology has been utilised as part of lifestyle programmes and in the majority of cases has been well received and produced positive results.
Overweight and obese postpartum women, older than 18 years old who meet the inclusion criteria will be invited to attend Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus on seven occasions over a 20 week period for a total of 12-14 hours. At the first visit baseline measures will be taken, the same measures will be taken at the second visit after 4 weeks of tracked free-living physical activity and diet, and visits 3-7 will form part of the intervention. During visits 3-7 participants will complete a 16 week dietary or physical activity intervention, consisting of 4 blocks of 3 weeks where after each block the participant will meet with the Stephanie Hanley to receive supplementary intervention specific information. The intervention will be underpinned by technological support. Body weight, height, BP and resting HR will be taken at each visit and participants will provide four small blood samples and complete a series of questionnaires throughout the study.REC name
East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EM/0145
Date of REC Opinion
23 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion