Evaluation of Educational Tools for Pregnant Women

NCT ID: NCT01858324

Last Updated: 2014-12-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

247 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-03-31

Study Completion Date

2014-09-30

Brief Summary

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Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy happen in 5% of pregnancies. Being aware of symptoms and complications may help women to present early and preserve their own and their baby's health.

The proposed research aims to evaluate the impact of educational tools in pregnant women from an ambulatory population. These tools include a detailed pamphlet (including a graphic-based summary), a magnet summarizing symptoms and appropriate action, and a video. Level of knowledge will be evaluated after one month with a validated questionnaire. We will also evaluate if getting more information about preeclampsia increases patient anxiety as well as satisfaction about the tools.

Detailed Description

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Background: Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal/fetal morbidity/mortality. Pregnant women are often poorly informed on preeclampsia and seeking care too late results in maternal/fetal complications. Many healthcare providers believe that delivering information for low-risk women only make them more anxious.

Preliminary data: We published that an information pamphlet on preeclampsia increases knowledge, without increasing anxiety, and generates high satisfaction in women hospitalized for preeclampsia.

Objectives: Demonstrate that (1) ambulatory low-risk pregnant women will benefit from the pamphlet/video with improved knowledge; (2) without any increase in anxiety, and with great satisfaction.

Design: Prospective randomized controlled pilot study. Inclusion criteria: consecutive pregnant women aged ≥18 y.o. between 200-326 weeks presenting at the clinic and who read/write French or English. Exclusion criteria: Anticipated delivery or termination within one month. Intervention: pamphlet, magnet and video. Control: no educational tool. At baseline, women in both groups will answer questionnaire #1 on demographics; one month later: self-administered questionnaire #2 on knowledge, anxiety, satisfaction.

Sample size: N=178 will provide 80% power to find a significant improvement of at least 20% in knowledge score and 96% power to find a difference of at least 1 on scale for anxiety (alpha of 5%). Assuming a drop-out rate of 10%, missing answers \<20%, and rate of answered questionnaire #2 of 50%, 400 subjects will be recruited.

Anticipated results: The tools will improve knowledge by about 20% in intervention group compared to control group. They will not increase anxiety over one point and will be highly appreciated by women.

Conditions

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Preeclampsia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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educational tools

Subjects will receive at time 0 the educational tools (pamphlet-including a graphic-based summary, a magnet and a 12 minutes video). They will then have to answer a questionnaire 1 month later about knowledge, anxiety and satisfaction.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Educational tools

Intervention Type OTHER

Subjects will receive the educational tools. They will then receive one month after a questionnaire about knowledge, anxiety and satisfaction.

Usual antenatal care

Subjects in this group will not receive any more educational tools that what is generally offered in routine antenatal care.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Educational tools

Subjects will receive the educational tools. They will then receive one month after a questionnaire about knowledge, anxiety and satisfaction.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Pamphlet (including a graphic-based summary) Magnet-summary Video

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Women between 20+0 to 32+6 weeks pregnant
* Aged 18 years old or more
* Who present at the Blood Sampling in Pregnancy clinic
* With an adequate understanding of written and spoken French or English in order to read the pamphlet and fill out the self-administered questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria

* Consideration of an interruption of pregnancy for maternal or fetal reasons
* Anticipated delivery within the next month.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Université de Sherbrooke

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Nadine Sauvé

Member of the Mother & Child Research Axis of the clinical research center Etienne Le Bel

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Nadine Sauve, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centre de recherche clinique of the Centre Hopitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke

Locations

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Centre Hopitalier Universiatire de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Other Identifiers

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13-025

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id