E-health App and Lifestyle Changes During Pregnancy

NCT ID: NCT05094479

Last Updated: 2021-10-26

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1047 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-06-21

Study Completion Date

2018-08-23

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this online follow-up study is to investigate health app use in pregnant women and through a pilot intervention trial investigate whether the addition of evidence-based information on health-promoting lifestyle delivered via the health app has an effect on lifestyle habits (gestational weight, diet quality and physical activity) during pregnancy.

Detailed Description

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An online follow-up study with a 2-arm equal allocation parallel randomized controlled pilot intervention trial with pregnant women (n=1000) will be conducted. The intervention consists of non-personalized, evidence-based information on health-promoting lifestyle during pregnancy delivered via a health app. Control group uses the health app without health information.

Aims of an exploratory part of the study are to characterize the health app use and users among pregnant women and to investigate whether the frequency of the health app use during pregnancy has an effect on lifestyle habits. Aim of the pilot intervention is to investigate whether the addition of evidence-based information on health-promoting lifestyle delivered via the health app has an effect on lifestyle habits during pregnancy.

Conditions

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Pregnancy Dietary Habits Physical Activity Gestational Weight Gain

Keywords

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Pregnancy Health application Diet quality Physical activity Gestational weight gain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Health information delivered via health app

Use of a health app with health information

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Health information delivered via health app

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group will use a health app with non-personalized information on health-promoting lifestyle habits during pregnancy. Control group will use a health app without health information. Intervention effects on the lifestyle habits (gestational weight gain, diet quality, physical activity) will be investigated.

Control

Use of a health app without health information

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Health information delivered via health app

Intervention group will use a health app with non-personalized information on health-promoting lifestyle habits during pregnancy. Control group will use a health app without health information. Intervention effects on the lifestyle habits (gestational weight gain, diet quality, physical activity) will be investigated.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Pregnant, less than 28 pregnancy weeks
* Fluency in Finnish

Exclusion Criteria

* Not pregnant
* No fluency in Finnish
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

45 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Business Finland

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Turku

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Kirsi Laitinen

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Kirsi Laitinen, Assoc. Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Turku

Locations

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University of Turku

Turku, , Finland

Site Status

Countries

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Finland

Other Identifiers

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E-HEALTH

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id