Adapting the Stanford Obstetric Recovery Checklist in Postpartum Women to a Digital Health Platform: A Feasibility Study

NCT07408557 | Not Yet Recruiting FDA Device

• 1 other identifier: 83257
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Explore patient experiences engaging with a digital tool (app- and web-based) to support postpartum recovery. Postpartum recovery involves physical, emotional, and social changes, and many patients report unmet needs for timely guidance and reassurance. Digital health applications may provide scalable support by collecting patient-reported wellbeing data and delivering tailored education and self-management guidance. However, patient experience, acceptability, perceived usefulness require evaluation to inform implementation and improvements. Primary objective

• To evaluate patient experience using the postpartum recovery app, including acceptability, usability, and perceived usefulness for the first 12 weeks postpartum. Secondary objectives
• To characterize how patients engage with app content over time.
• To gather patient recommendations for content and wording.
• To evaluate patient engagement with the app over first 12 weeks postpartum (frequency and duration of use).

Conditions

Childbirth Problems

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The number of participants that used the digital application

  Participant engagement will be measured by the proportion of patients who used the tool

  From time of enrollment to up to 12 weeks postpartum

Study Arms (1)

Digital application - Postpartum Companion

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be asked to download the digital application to evaluate postpartum recovery and provide informational resources after childbirth for 12 weeks.

Device: A digital application - Postpartum Companion

Interventions

A digital application - Postpartum Companion DEVICE

This is an application that provides mixed media resources to support postpartum mothers, including videos and articles about how to manage postpartum recovery (physical, social, and mental well being). Participants will be able to use the application beyond the follow up end point of 12 weeks. Data will be collected up to 12 weeks postpartum.

Digital application - Postpartum Companion

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Able to speak, read and understand English
• Delivered a live infant
• years old or older

You may not qualify if:

• Fetal demise / infant death
• Refusal to participate
• Less than 18 years old
• Unable to provide informed consent
• Unable to speak, read and/or understand English
• No access to a suitable device to use the digital tool

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Stanford University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital

Palo Alto, California, 94305, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Gillian Abir, MBBS

  Stanford University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology

Model Details: This is an explorative study evaluating patient engagement and feedback on a digital tool to support postpartum recovery.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 6, 2026
• First Posted: February 13, 2026
• Study Start (Estimated): July 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2027
• Last Updated: April 21, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)