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Physical Activity in Pregnancy and Postpartum Period, Effects on Women

A study testing Physical activity in people with Pregnancy, run by Juan Carlos Sanchez Garcia at 1 site in Spain.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study evaluates whether the use of moderate physical exercise character in water is beneficial for pregnant women. Half of the participants will carry out moderate physical exercise character in water, following the protocol developed specifically for this purpose and called SWEP (Study Water Exercises Program)… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age, women onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Pregnancy
What is being tested?
Physical activity
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
140 participants
Where
1 siteSpain
Study dates
21 Jun 2016to 15 Jan 2017
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • Women only
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Do not suffer any absolute contraindications according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
  • If there is a relative contraindication, participation in the intervention group should be favorable report by participants obstetrician.
  • To know how to swim.
  • To sign informed consent to participate in research consent.

Who cannot join

  • Absolute contraindications to aerobic exercise during pregnancy.
  • Restrictive lung disease.
  • Heart disease with hemodynamic consequences.
  • Incompetent cervix/cerclage.
  • Multiple gestation with preterm labor.
  • Persistent bleeding in the second or third trimester bleeding.
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  • Previa after 26 weeks of gestation.
  • Preterm birth during the current pregnancy.
  • Rupture of membranes.
  • Pregnancy-induced hypertension.
  • Relative contraindications to aerobic exercise during pregnancy.
  • Severe anemia.
  • Cardiac arrhythmia maternal unevaluated.
  • Chronic Bronchitis.
  • Type I diabetes poorly controlled.
  • Extreme morbid obesity.
  • Under extreme weight (BMI <12).
  • History of extremely sedentary life style.
  • Intrauterine growth restriction in current pregnancy.
  • Poorly controlled hypertension / pre-eclampsia.
  • Orthopedic limitations.
  • Poorly controlled seizure disorders.
  • Poorly controlled Thyroid disease.
  • Heavy smoker.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Spain1 site
  • Instituto Mixto Universitario Deporte y Salud

    Granada, 18100

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About this study

Official title: Physical Training in Water (SWEP Method) During Pregnancy and Low Pressure Fitness (LPF) in Postpartum Period, Effects on Women

This study evaluates whether the use of moderate physical exercise character in water is beneficial for pregnant women. Half of the participants will carry out moderate physical exercise character in water, following the protocol developed specifically for this purpose and called SWEP (Study Water Exercises Program) method, while the other group will not perform physical exercise during pregnancy.

Concluded the postpartum period, women perform exercises aimed postpartum recovery. The women's group has conducted exercises during pregnancy postpartum recovery made under the guidance of LPF (Low Pressure Fitness) method.

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Preliminary phase:

Current status of the subject.

During this phase will be an updated systematic search research topic. The literature search in databases such as MEDLINE, SCOPUS, CINAHL, WoS (Web Of Science) among others.

Data Collection: The source for the collection of primary data is through a personal interview with the participants and through the primer health of pregnant and/or medical history.

Interview on the first visit:

  • Collect socioeconomic and health data about participants: age, parity, weight, BMI, smoking habits, drug use, profession/occupation, education level, physical activity pattern prior to pregnancy.
  • Degree of overall health perception.
  • Assess the risks according to the guide of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
  • Obtaining informed when agreeing to participate in the study consent.
  • Give information pack about the exercises that the investigators will perform well as controls to be made in each session, and general rules to practice any physical activity.

Execution:

Classes are held in the morning hours preferable between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning after a caloric intake and adequate hydration.

Every participant should carry your water bottle during each session that will take place, as well as adequate clothing, in which bathing suit, hat, glasses and proper footwear is included to prevent falls.

Before each class dynamics to follow and the signs that will make the exercise should stop, every participant should know how to take her own pulse at the level of the carotid artery may recall, because at different times of the central activity will take frequency heart, as a general rule must be able to hold a conversation without much difficulty while performing the exercise, and during the performance of this should properly hydrated according to the needs of each one in particular.

  1. Warm up: The warm-up exercise will take place in a small vessel, where the water depth is around the thighs. The session starts with the upper body and decreasing order to heat the lower body.
  2. Central part of the activity. It is be held in the large vessel, exercise intensity will increase in order to keep within the limits for an exercise of moderate, use different devices support to carry it out and exercises of strength, endurance and pelvic elasticity are included. Assistive devices that will use floating elements that will help us reduce the intensity of exercise providing flotation and will serve as support material to work specific parts. These devices are floating tables expanded polystyrene foam boys pull soft polyethylene and flexible floating bars and playful elements, such as balls, rings, ... spades.
  3. Phase cool down. In this phase the participants will seek to return to calm, will be done in the small vessel having 3-4 ° C more than the large glass. exercises to progressively reducing the intensity and ending with relaxation exercises will be conducted .

The exercises are flexibility the investigators will not keep avoiding positions that strain the joints due to the state of gestation, those areas that have been previously exercised not to exceed the natural movement will stretch.

Once found befallen birth one review and extraction of data on birth process will take place and will take a final interview with the participant to collect data that will be obtained during the postpartum period such as type of feed received by the newborn, and value the existence of postpartum depression with the Edinburgh test.

Concluded the postpartum period. Women begin a program of recovery postpartum 12 weeks, 3 times a week in sessions of one hour. They perform warm-up exercises, a central part of Low Pressure Fitness exercises and end with stretching exercises.

Conditions
Pregnancy
Being tested
Physical activity
Keywords
Physical activity, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum period, Exercise
Medical subject headings
Motor Activity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Physical activityBehavioural

    Women from the 20th week of moderate physical exercise performed in water character designed following the guidelines in the SWEP method will end in week 37 of gestation. After the postpartum period, women begin a program based on postpartum recovery exercises Fitness Low Pressure method 12-week, 3 days a week, in sessions of 60 minutes.

Study groups in NCT02761967
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Physical activityExperimentalThe women in the EG (Exercise Group) performed moderate physical exercise in water, following the SWEP method (Study of Water-based Exercise during Pregnancy). It consists of performing moderate physical exercise in an aquatic environment from weeks 20 to 37 of gestation. The sessions take place three times weekly, with a duration of 60 minutes each (45 minutes of activity followed by 15 minutes of relaxation). The sessions are composed of three phases: a) warm-up; b) the main phase, divided into aerobic exercise and strength-endurance exercises, designed specifically for pregnant women; c) stretching and relaxation. After the postpartum period, women begin a program based on postpartum recovery exercises Fitness Low Pressure method 12-week, 3 days a week, in sessions of 60 minutes.
Receives: Behavioral: Physical activity
No exerciseNo interventionThe CG (Control Group) received the standard recommendations during pregnancy, including guidelines from the midwife on the positive effects of physical exercise. These participants received the usual visits from healthcare providers (midwives, obstetricians and family doctor) during pregnancy, as did those in the EG. After the postpartum period, the women in the control group did not perform regulated physical activity.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Delivery Times Measured in Partogram

    This result is to measure the difference in time between births to women who have made physical exercise during pregnancy, SWEP method, compared to women who have not exercised .

    Measured: Twenty four month

  2. Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

    Determine the rate of postpartum depression in both groups. The scale consists of ten short questions, all of which must be answered. The subject is asked to choose, of the four possible answers, the one that most closely describes how she felt during the week prior to the test. The response options range from 0 (for example, no, not at all or no, never again) to 3 (for example, yes, most of the time or yes, very often). The total score is recorded in a table ranging from 0 to 30, where higher values indicate more severe symptoms of depression.

    For this study, total scores below 10 were classed as "no risk" and scores of 10 or more indicated the presence of risk. Scores above 16 indicated a more severe risk of depression, and suggested that additional evaluations should be conducted immediately.

    Measured: Six month

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Sleep Quality in Pregnant; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

    Assess the quality of sleep of pregnant women with moderate activity in water, with respect to who do not practice.

    Consisting of 19 items, the PSQI measures several different aspects of sleep, offering seven component scores and one composite score. The component scores consist of subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction.The order of the PSQI items has been modified from the original order in order to fit the first 9 items (which are the only items that contribute to the total score) on a single page. Item 10, which is the second page of the scale, does not contribute to the PSQI score.

    In scoring the PSQI, seven component scores are derived, each scored 0 (no difficulty) to 3 (severe difficulty). The component scores are summed to produce a global score (range 0 to 21). Higher scores indicate worse sleep quality.

    Measured: Twelve month

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted4 May 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study start21 Jun 2016
  3. Primary completion12 Nov 2016
  4. Study completion15 Jan 2017

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
140 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02761967
Sponsor's protocol ID
20022014UGR
Status last verified
Oct 2019
First submitted
25 Apr 2016
Last updated
10 Oct 2019
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Aguilar-Cordero MJ, Sanchez-Garcia JC, Rodriguez-Blanque R, Sanchez-Lopez AM, Mur-Villar N. Moderate Physical Activity in an Aquatic Environment During Pregnancy (SWEP Study) and Its Influence in Preventing Postpartum Depression. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2019 Mar/Apr;25(2):112-121. doi: 10.1177/1078390317753675. Epub 2018 Feb 28.

    PubMed 29490560

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Physical activity in people with Pregnancy, run by Juan Carlos Sanchez Garcia at 1 site in Spain.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 24 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Oct 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Spain. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 10 Oct 2019). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Delivery Times Measured in Partogram (time frame: Twenty four month). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02761967, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Oct 2019.

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