E-health App and Lifestyle Changes During Pregnancy

NCT05094479 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: E-HEALTH
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,047
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Pregnancy; Dietary Habits; Physical Activity; Gestational Weight Gain

Keywords

Pregnancy; Health application; Diet quality; Physical activity; Gestational weight gain

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in gestational weight

  Self-reported weight assessed by a questionnaire

  Pre-pregnancy weight reported at enrollment and current weight at late pregnancy (pregnancy weeks 35-36)

• Change in diet quality scores

  Assessed by a validated Index of Diet Quality (IDQ); scores range from 0 to 15 points with higher scores meaning better diet quality.

  At enrollment and late pregnancy (pregnancy weeks 35-36)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in physical activity scores

  At enrollment and late pregnancy (pregnancy weeks 35-36)

Study Arms (2)

Health information delivered via health app

EXPERIMENTAL

Use of a health app with health information

Behavioral: Health information delivered via health app

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Use of a health app without health information

Interventions

Health information delivered via health app 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.

Health information delivered via health app

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 45 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Pregnant females
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• Not pregnant
• No fluency in Finnish

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Turku: lead
• Business Finland: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Turku

Turku, Finland

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior; Motor Activity; Gestational Weight Gain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Behavior; Weight Gain; Body Weight Changes; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Kirsi Laitinen, Assoc. Prof.

  University of Turku

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 22, 2021
• First Posted: October 26, 2021
• Study Start: June 21, 2017
• Primary Completion: June 12, 2018
• Study Completion: August 23, 2018
• Last Updated: October 26, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FI (1)