Developing and Testing Motherly App: a Smartphone Application to Promote Mothers' Mental Health

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Maternal Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational App (Active Control); Behavioral: Motherly App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03955718

SB-POC-1810-20573

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators plan to develop and test Motherly, a smartphone app to promote maternal mental health and child development. The Motherly app is visually appealing aimed at engaging the user with a minimalistic layout. The app will offer a gamified experience ideal for engaging youth in behaviors that can promote mental health, such as stimulating pleasure, productivity, and physical activities, connecting with peers, and eating healthy food. Pregnant women aged 16-34 living in Brazil will participate in the clinical trial to test the efficacy of the intervention.

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Literate women in the first or second trimester of pregnancy
• Living in Brazil
• Owning a functional smartphone for personal use with Android or iOS operational system

Exclusion criteria

• High-risk pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Motherly App

Experimental group

Description:

A smartphone app with an automated intervention that provides strategies to prevent maternal depression and to promote child development: (1) behavioral activation, (2) sleep hygiene, (3) physical activity, (4) social support, (5) nutrition, (6) prenatal care schedule, and (7) educational content.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motherly App

Educational App (Active Control)

Active Comparator group

Description:

An app with educational content about gestation, maternal health and mental health, child development, etc.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational App (Active Control)