Conversational AI Platform for Early Pregnancy Care City-wide Recruitment: A Feasibility Study (CIRCA)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Early Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: CIRCA Texting Platform

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07197892

859274

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to determine pregnant patients in the Philadelphia area can be recruited to a conversational AI texting platform. The trial will be considered feasible if recruitment goals are met in proportion to delivery volume at the hospital.

Full description

The investigators developed a conversational AI platform to improve periconception care (CIRCA) to engage individuals in their healthcare decision making, reduce barriers to care, and ultimately reduce widespread inequities in reproductive and maternal health.

CIRCA was developed to enable care from positive pregnancy test onward. After a positive test, patients scan a QR code to onboard via SMS to the program. A positive pregnancy test is confirmed, and an estimated gestational duration is calculated from last menstrual period, if known. If unknown, the patient is directed to schedule a visit at a nearby early pregnancy assessment center where they can receive routine testing and counseling to confirm the pregnancy and its gestational duration. They are then able to receive triage and scheduled educational content.

Enrollment: 2,637 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Willing and able to provide informed consent
• Access to a working mobile phone
• Ability to read English
• Pregnant with a gestational age less than 12 weeks, 6 days by last menstrual period or by ultrasound, or per patient self-report

Exclusion Criteria: N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,637 participants in 1 patient group

CIRCA Texting Platform

Experimental group

Description:

CIRCA is a two-way texting platform that uses artificial intelligence to match patient texts to clinician-vetted responses and send educational content.

Treatment:

Other: CIRCA Texting Platform