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Preconception and pregnancy: opportunities to intervene to improve women's diets and lifestyles

Preconception and pregnancy: opportunities to intervene to improve women's diets and lifestyles
Preconception and pregnancy: opportunities to intervene to improve women's diets and lifestyles
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.
epidemiology/public health, maternal pregnancy, outcome/system
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Barker, M., Baird, J., Lawrence, W., Vogel, C., Strommer, S., Rose, T., Inskip, H., Godfrey, K. and Cooper, C. (2016) Preconception and pregnancy: opportunities to intervene to improve women's diets and lifestyles. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 1-4. (doi:10.1017/S2040174416000064). (PMID:26924188)

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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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Accepted/In Press date: 31 January 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 February 2016
Keywords: epidemiology/public health, maternal pregnancy, outcome/system
Organisations: MRC Life-Course Epidemiology Unit

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Local EPrints ID: 388766
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388766
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ORCID for M. Barker: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2976-0217
ORCID for J. Baird: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4039-4361
ORCID for W. Lawrence: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1264-0438
ORCID for C. Vogel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3897-3786
ORCID for H. Inskip: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-1749
ORCID for K. Godfrey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4643-0618
ORCID for C. Cooper: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3510-0709

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Author: M. Barker ORCID iD
Author: J. Baird ORCID iD
Author: W. Lawrence ORCID iD
Author: C. Vogel ORCID iD
Author: S. Strommer
Author: T. Rose
Author: H. Inskip ORCID iD
Author: K. Godfrey ORCID iD
Author: C. Cooper ORCID iD

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