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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.
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.
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- A comparison of a social support physical activity intervention in weight management among post-partum Latinas
Contributors
- Keller, Colleen (Author)
- Ainsworth, Barbara (Author)
- Records, Kathryn (Author)
- Todd, Michael (Author)
- Belyea, Michael (Author)
- Vega Lopez, Sonia (Author)
- Permana, Paska (Author)
- Coonrod, Dean (Author)
- Williams, Allison (Author)
- Arizona State University. College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation (Contributor)
- College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
- School of Nutrition and Health Promotion (Contributor)
- College of Public Service and Community Solutions (Contributor)
- Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (Contributor)
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2014-09-19
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- Digital object identifier: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-971
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1471-2458
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- The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-971
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Keller, C., Ainsworth, B., Records, K., Todd, M., Belyea, M., Vega-López, S., . . . Nagle-Williams, A. (2014). A comparison of a social support physical activity intervention in weight management among post-partum Latinas. BMC Public Health, 14(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-971