Physical Activity and Sedentary Lifestyle During Pregnancy: Feasibility and Impact Study on Sedentary Behavior

Summary

Background:

Physical activity (PA) has beneficial effects on health, physical condition, and the maintenance of autonomy and independence at all ages of life. It also has numerous benefits during pregnancy: maintenance or improvement of physical condition, prevention of excessive weight gain, aid in postpartum weight loss, prevention of gestational hypertension, reduction in number of macrosomic infants at birth, reduction in lower back and pelvic pain, and prevention and improvement of postpartum depressive symptoms. A recent systematic review of the literature concluded that interventions to increase PA levels among pregnant women have a positive effect on this level. The studies included in the review also showed that these interventions have a positive effect on these women's well-being and their mental and physical health. Nonetheless, no study has examined this subject in France. Moreover, to our knowledge, no study in the international literature has looked at online interactive video sessions of PA during pregnancy.

Overall, few studies allow an assessment of the effect of sedentary behavior and inadequate PA during pregnancy on maternal, neonatal, or infant outcomes. This is equally true for the health of adults whose mothers were physically active during pregnancy. Moreover, we do not know the actual level of PA of women in France. Finally, we do not know what types of intervention described in the literature would enable the best adherence by French women to their initiation or maintenance of an adequate PA level.

Study hypothesis:

Our hypothesis is that setting up a free program of physical and sports activity session for pregnant women will enable them to meet the guidelines for PA practice during this period and to reduce their sedentary behavior.

Objectives:

1.1. Principal objective To study the feasibility of setting up physical activity (PA) sessions for pregnant women during their prenatal care, by assessing its acceptability, the perceived difficulty of the sessions, and their satisfaction with these sessions.

1.2. Secondary objectives

* To evaluate the effect of these sessions:

* on the PA level and sedentary behavior of pregnant women,
* on their quality of life (QoL).
* The feasibility and impact of the sessions will be studied according to their PA level at inclusion: active or inactive.
* To identify the facilitators of and obstacles to the acceptability of these sessions, other than those studied in the objectives above.
* To measure the willingness to pay of pregnant women so that we can quantify how much they would be willing to pay for such a program, were it were not free. Willingness to pay (measured in €) makes it possible to measure indirectly the acceptability of the program to the participants and the monetary value they attribute to it.

Conditions

• Sedentary Behavior
• Pregnancy Related
• Perinatal Problems
• Sedentary Time
• Morbidity;Perinatal

Interventions

OTHER

Physical activity sessions for pregnant women

The physical activity sessions will take place once a week at the Estaing UHC, in the room used for the childbirth and parenting preparation classes of the outpatient obstetrics-gynecology clinic; and twice a week on Zoom. These sessions will be supervised by an APA professional (degree in STAPS and APA). The measurement of the women's physical conditions will make it possible to adapt and individualize the PA sessions to each woman's level.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Françoise Vendittelli · University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

19 Years

Max Age

50 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-04-28

Primary Completion

2023-02-27

Completion

2023-02-27

Countries

• France

Study Locations