A Comparison of a Social Support Physical Activity Intervention in Weight Management Among Post-Partum Latinas

Colleen Keller; Barbara Ainsworth; Kathryn Records; Michael Todd; Michael Belyea; Sonia Vega-López; Paska Permana; Dean Coonrod; Allison Nagle-Williams

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-971

A Comparison of a Social Support Physical Activity Intervention in Weight Management Among Post-Partum Latinas

Colleen Keller, Barbara Ainsworth, Kathryn Records, Michael Todd, Michael Belyea, Sonia Vega-López, Paska Permana, Dean Coonrod, Allison Nagle-Williams

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Abstract

 Background
 Weight gain during the childbearing years and failure to lose pregnancy weight after birth contribute to the development of obesity in postpartum Latinas.
 
 Methods
 Madres para la Salud [Mothers for Health] was a 12-month, randomized controlled trial exploring a social support intervention with moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) seeking to effect changes in body fat, fat tissue inflammation, and depression symptoms in sedentary postpartum Latinas. This report describes the efficacy of the Madres intervention.
 
 Results
 The results show that while social support increased during the active intervention delivery, it declined to pre-intervention levels by the end of the intervention. There were significant achievements in aerobic and total steps across the 12 months of the intervention, and declines in body adiposity assessed with bioelectric impedance.
 
 Conclusions
 Social support from family and friends mediated increases in aerobic PA resulting in decrease in percent body fat.
 
 Trial registration
 ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01908959.

Original language	American English
Journal	BMC Public Health
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-971
State	Published - Dec 1 2014

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Medicine and Health Sciences
Nursing
Physical Therapy

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