SmartMoms Canada : An evaluation of a mobile app intervention to support a healthy pregnancy

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BACKGROUND: There is a lack of cost-effective and readily available access to evidence-based information to manage healthy behaviours for pregnant individuals. Mobile health (mHealth) tools offer a cost-effective, interactive, personalized option that can be delivered anywhere at a time most convenient for the user. This study protocol was primarily developed to, i) assess the feasibility of the SmartMoms Canada intervention in supporting participants to achieve gestational weight gain (GWG) guidelines. The secondary objectives are to, ii) assess user experience with the app, measured by adherence to the program via app software metrics and frequency of use, iii) determine the impact of SmartMoms Canada app usage on the adoption of healthful behaviours related to nutrition, physical activity and sleep habits, improvements in health-related quality of life, pregnancy-related complications, and symptoms of depression, and iv) investigate the potential extended effects of the app on postpartum health-related outcomes.

METHODS: This is a feasibility trial. Pregnant individuals aged 18-40 years with pre-gravid body mass index between 18.5 and 39.9 kg/m2, carrying a singleton fetus, having Wi-Fi access, and at ≤20 weeks' gestation will be recruited. Eligible people will be followed from recruitment until 12 months postpartum.

DISCUSSION: SmartMoms Canada is the first bilingual Canadian-centric app designed for pregnant people. This mHealth intervention, with its ability to supply frequent interactions, provides pregnancy- related health knowledge to users, potentially leading to an improvement in pregnancy-related outcomes and behaviours, and, ultimately a reduction in the present economic burden related to in-person interventions.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN, ISRCTN16254958. Registered 20 December 2019, http://www.isrctn.com/ ISRCTN16254958.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:126

Enthalten in:

Contemporary clinical trials - 126(2023) vom: 01. März, Seite 107066

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Adamo, Kristi B [VerfasserIn]
Semeniuk, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
da Silva, Danilo F [VerfasserIn]
Souza, Sara C S [VerfasserIn]
Baillargeon, Jean-Patrice [VerfasserIn]
Redman, Leanne M [VerfasserIn]
Piccinini-Vallis, Helena [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Garry X [VerfasserIn]
Nerenberg, Kara [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Gestational weight gain
Journal Article
Lifestyle modification
Mobile health intervention
Pregnancy
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 10.03.2023

Date Revised 22.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cct.2022.107066

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350837309