Excessive gestational weight gain increases the risk of complications in pregnancy, childbirth and later in life among pregnant women living with overweight and their offspring. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and examine the feasibility of a digital intervention supporting recommended gestational weight gain and the recommended level of physical activity, targeting pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) of 27 or above.
Intervention development was guided by the Medical Research Council guideline on the development and evaluation of complex interventions, and subsequent feasibility testing was conducted in a non-randomised design.
The obstetric department at Copenhagen University Hospital—North Zealand, Denmark.
98 pregnant women living with overweight participated in feasibility testing.
The intervention developed in this study was a mobile phone application with a digital care guide containing text and video information supporting recommended gestational weight gain and physical activity levels. The video material featured multiple healthcare professionals and a pregnant woman from the target group.
The main feasibility measures were participant recruitment and engagement with the digital care guide throughout pregnancy.
Recruitment rates were satisfactory, with 69% of eligible pregnant women consenting to participation. The participants used the application and engaged with the digital care guide; however, use of the care guide diminished as pregnancy progressed.
We developed a digital care guide supporting recommended gestational weight gain and physical activity levels for pregnant women with a BMI of 27 or higher. Feasibility testing indicated that there is sufficient interest in participating in a study promoting recommended weight gain and physical activity to warrant a larger effectiveness trial.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disease with a rising incidence and prevalence. Patients with Parkinson’s disease may receive antipsychotics, for example, due to Parkinson’s disease psychosis. Parkinson’s disease psychosis is characterised by visual hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. To date, no systematic review has evaluated the effects of antipsychotics in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, this review aims to assess the beneficial and harmful effects of antipsychotics for Parkinson’s disease.
This is a protocol for a systematic review. A search specialist will perform a search in major medical databases (eg, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database), CENTRAL (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials)) and clinical trial registries. Published and unpublished randomised clinical trials comparing antipsychotics to any control (placebo, standard care or other antipsychotics) in patients with Parkinson’s disease will be included. Two review authors will independently extract data and conduct risk of bias assessments with the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool—V.2. Primary outcomes will be all-cause mortality, serious adverse events and significant falls. Secondary outcomes will be hospitalisations, non-serious adverse events, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale total score and psychotic symptoms using any valid symptom scale. Data will be synthesised by aggregate meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis and network meta-analysis. Several subgroup analyses are planned. An eight-step procedure will be used to assess if the thresholds for clinical significance are crossed, and the certainty of the evidence will be assessed by GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluations) and CiNeMA (Confidence in Network Meta-Analysis) approach.
This protocol does not include results, and ethics approval is not required for the project. The findings from the systematic review will be published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
PROSPERO ID: CRD42025633985. Available from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD42025633985.