ArticleJournal of developmental origins of health and disease2016
Preconception and pregnancy: opportunities to intervene to improve women's diets and lifestyles.
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- The effectiveness of interventions during the first 1,000 days to improve energy balance-related behaviors or prevent overweight/obesity in children from socio-economically disadvantaged families of high-income countries: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Combined analysis of gestational diabetes and maternal weight status from pre-pregnancy through post-delivery in future development of type 2 diabetes.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- INTER-ACT: prevention of pregnancy complications through an e-health driven interpregnancy lifestyle intervention - study protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Trial
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- Rethinking causal assumptions about maternal BMI, gestational weight gain, and adverse pregnancy outcomes.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- ART history prior to conception: trends and association with postpartum disengagement from HIV care in Khayelitsha, South Africa (2013-2019): a retrospective cohort study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Article
- Planning is not equivalent to preparing, how Dutch women perceive their pregnancy planning in relation to preconceptional lifestyle behaviour change - a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Interest in Cancer Predisposition Testing and Carrier Screening Offered as Part of Routine Healthcare Among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Young Women.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- "It's Never Too Early": Preconception Care and Postgenomic Models of Life.Frontiers in sociology · 2020Article
- Infant dietary patterns and early childhood caries in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Mediterranean diet based intervention in pregnancy to improve maternal and fetal outcomes: Methodological challenges and lessons learned from the multicentre ESTEEM study.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
Recently, large-scale trials of behavioural interventions have failed to show improvements in pregnancy outcomes. They have, however, shown that lifestyle support improves maternal diet and physical activity during pregnancy, and can reduce weight gain. This suggests that pregnancy, and possibly the whole periconceptional period, represents a 'teachable moment' for changes in diet and lifestyle, an idea that was made much of in the recent report of the Chief Medical Officer for England. The greatest challenge with all trials of diet and lifestyle interventions is to engage people and to sustain this engagement. With this in mind, we propose a design of intervention that aims simultaneously to engage women through motivational conversations and to offer access to a digital platform that provides structured support for diet and lifestyle change. This intervention design therefore makes best use of learning from the trials described above and from recent advances in digital intervention design.
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