Status:
COMPLETED
Mobile Strategy to Reduce the Risk of Recurrent Preterm Birth
Lead Sponsor:
Stanford University
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Conditions:
Preterm Birth
Eligibility:
FEMALE
16-50 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Preterm births are defined as delivery prior to 37 weeks gestation and account for 35% of infant deaths in the first year of life. Early preterm birth are deliveries prior to 32 weeks gestation and ac...
Detailed Description
The investigators hope to learn how to engage pregnant women at risk for preterm births and reduce the incidence of preterm births through this study. The goal of this study is to reduce the risk of r...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Individuals with a mobile phone capable of downloading apps from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
- Participants must consent to the study.
- Women whose child is in the neonatal intensive care unit/nursery because the infant was born preterm.
- Women 16-50 years of age
- Women who can read, write and understand English
- Site-specific additional recruitment criteria
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh: Mothers whose babies have been in the neonatal intensive care unit for more than one month.
- UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital: Mothers who have had a preterm baby of \<36 weeks.
Exclusion
- For this initial study, those who do not have a mobile phone will be excluded. (This exclusion will not affect the inclusion of minorities as minorities Internet use via mobile platforms is equal to or greater than whites; hence we are not excluding minorities, based on the PEW Research Center study (PEW Internet Spring Tracking Survey, April 17-May 19, 2013)).
- Women who have not previously had a preterm birth will be excluded as we are trying to reduce the risk of recurrent preterm birth.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 7 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 18 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
221 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04663607
Start Date
October 7 2021
End Date
July 18 2025
Last Update
September 24 2025
Active Locations (2)
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UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
2
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224