E-health App and Lifestyle Changes During Pregnancy (E-HEALTH)

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dietary Habits; Physical Activity; Gestational Weight Gain; Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: Health information delivered via health app

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05094479

E-HEALTH

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

An online follow-up study with a 2-arm equal allocation parallel randomized controlled pilot intervention trial with pregnant women (n=1000) will be conducted. The intervention consists of non-personalized, evidence-based information on health-promoting lifestyle during pregnancy delivered via a health app. Control group uses the health app without health information.

Aims of an exploratory part of the study are to characterize the health app use and users among pregnant women and to investigate whether the frequency of the health app use during pregnancy has an effect on lifestyle habits. Aim of the pilot intervention is to investigate whether the addition of evidence-based information on health-promoting lifestyle delivered via the health app has an effect on lifestyle habits during pregnancy.

Enrollment: 1,047 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

• Not pregnant
• No fluency in Finnish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,047 participants in 2 patient groups

Health information delivered via health app

Experimental group

Description:

Use of a health app with health information

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health information delivered via health app

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Use of a health app without health information