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Using the ORBIT Model to Design an Intervention Promoting Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy: the Value of an Iterative and Incremental Approach to Intervention Development

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The author served as lead Program Director for the trans-NIH Obesity-Related Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) Consortium, and was Project Officer for the grant on which this article is based (E. Epel, B. Laraia, N. Adler, PI’s).

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Czajkowski, S.M. Using the ORBIT Model to Design an Intervention Promoting Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy: the Value of an Iterative and Incremental Approach to Intervention Development. Int.J. Behav. Med. 26, 457–460 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-019-09812-4

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