OBEAT - Beating Obesity

The primary objective of this trial is to study the feasibility of a resilience intervention to reduce stress and thus improve sleep, healthy diet and physical activity in normal weight pregnant women. Initially, an exploratory study of stressors and worrying in pregnant women will be done by use of qualitative methods (focus group interviews) followed by a randomised controlled feasibility trial with a parallel qualitative process evaluation. This project is expected to improve the understanding of the processes and feasibility of conducting a randomized intervention study to examine if improvements in chronic stress and poor sleep during pregnancy improves early weight gain and childhood risk of obesity.