The Ghana PrenaBelt trial: a double-blind, sham-controlled, randomised clinical trial to evaluate the effect of maternal positional therapy during third-trimester sleep on birth weight.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect, on birth weight and birth weight centile, of use of the PrenaBelt, a maternal positional therapy device, during sleep in the home setting throughout the third trimester of pregnancy.

Design

A double-blind, sham-controlled, randomised clinical trial.

Setting

Conducted from September 2015 to May 2016, at a single, tertiary-level centre in Accra, Ghana.

Participants

Two-hundred participants entered the study. One-hundred-eighty-one participants completed the study. Participants were women, 18 to 35 years of age, with low-risk, singleton, pregnancies in their third-trimester, with body mass index <35 kg/m² at the first antenatal appointment for the index pregnancy and without known foetal abnormalities, pregnancy complic

SUBMITTER: Coleman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502032 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature