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Development and feasibility of a web-based gestational weight gain intervention for women with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity

Waring, Molly E
Moore Simas, Tiffany A
Heersping, Grace E
Rudin, Lauren R
Balakrishnan, Kavitha
Burdick, Abigail R
Pagoto, Sherry L
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Participants (n=12) were on average 16.8 [standard deviation (SD): 2.0] weeks gestation with average pre-pregnancy body mass index of 30.5 (SD: 4.8) kg/m2. Participant retention was 92% (n=11). Participants logged into the website a median of 21 times [interquartile range (IQR), 8-37; range, 2-98] over 12 weeks, and 58% (n=7) logged into the website during the last week of the intervention. All participants said they would be very likely or likely to participate again, and 100% said they would be very likely or likely to recommend the intervention to a pregnant friend. In post-intervention interviews, 64% (n=7) explicitly said that the website was easy to use, but 100% (n=11) mentioned usability issues. When asked their preferred intervention platform, 18% (n=2) somewhat or strongly preferred a private website, 18% (n=2) had no preference, and 64% (n=7) somewhat or strongly preferred Facebook. Seventy percent (n=7) had excessive gestational weight gain, 10% (n=1) inadequate gestational weight gain, and 20% (n=2) gained within recommended ranges.

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Waring ME, Moore Simas TA, Heersping GE, Rudin LR, Balakrishnan K, Burdick AR, Pagoto SL. Development and feasibility of a web-based gestational weight gain intervention for women with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity. Mhealth. 2023 Feb 20;9:13. doi: 10.21037/mhealth-22-49. PMID: 37089268; PMCID: PMC10119439.

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10.21037/mhealth-22-49
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37089268
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This project was supported by the University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science through NIH grants KL2TR000160 and 5UL1RR031982. Partial support for website development provided by Veterans Affairs grant VA QUERI EHQ 10-190. Additional support provided by NIH grants U01HL105268, R25CA172009, and K24HL124366.
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