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Madres Para la Salud (Mothers for Health)

NCT01908959 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 177

Last updated 2013-07-26

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Summary

The purpose of "Madres Para la Salud" \[Mothers for Their Health\] is to see how support and encouragement can help women to make positive changes in their health. This program tested if supportive information, encouragement, and walking as a group would increase physical activity and health benefits, such as weight loss and postpartum depression.

Participants in this study were randomly assigned to one of two groups, a walking or a non-walking group. The walking group met weekly. Participants were given a pedometer to record the number of steps taken daily.

Participants met one time each week with our study staff. Participants walked four other days per week on their own, or with other group members. Participants measurements included body fat, waist, and hip at the beginning of the study, and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. The non-walking group received a weekly mailed newsletter about topics such as parenting, infant growth and development, and reproductive health. Non-walking group participants' measurements included body fat, waist, and hip at the beginning of the study and at 6 and 12 months.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity
  • Depression, Postpartum
  • Mother (Person)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Madres para la Salud

Participants attended Madres para la Salud sessions in a group, led by a promotora at the Maricopa Medical Center and other community based sites. Sessions consisted of a 30 minute education and social support session where women learned to walk at least 150 minutes a week at a 20 minute-mile pace, and up to 30 minutes of moderate intensity walking with the group. Participants received a pedometer and learned to monitor their walking intensity. Participants set and reviewed weekly walking goals at the group sessions and recorded aerobic steps per day. After the 12 week sessions, participants met with the promotora once a week for 40 weeks of in-group walking at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes, to download and review pedometer data. Data was collected at baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Arizona State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Colleen S Keller, PhD · Arizona State University, College of Nursing and Health Innovation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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