Rosie the Chatbot: Leveraging Automated and Personalized Health Information Communication

University of Maryland

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Infant Conditions; Infant Development; Postpartum Depression; Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: Rosie the Chatbot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06053515

3R01MD016037-03S1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

5R01MD016037-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rosie the Chatbot is an educational chatbot that moms can have on their computers or cellphones and will work by moms typing in their questions about pregnancy, health, infant milestones, and other variety of health related topics and receiving back a response immediately. Rosie only provides information from verified sources such as children's hospitals, health organizations and government agencies. Rosie does not ask moms to provide any personal information on her or her child, her chat is completely confidential, it works in English and Spanish and will be free.

Full description

This study will examine whether the use of a chatbot to impart health information to minority women during pregnancy and postpartum period improves health care seeking behavior and maternal and infant health outcomes. This study does not involve administration of an investigational intervention and therefore poses minimal risk to participants.

Aim 1: Develop technology for a "chatbot" that will provide health information support to vulnerable mothers the moment they need it.

Aim 2: Evaluate the use of Rosie on maternal and infant outcomes. Aim 3: Release an open-source packet for the construction of a chatbot.

• Participants in the study will be randomly assigned into one of two groups, Rosie the Chatbot group (treatment group) and Book Club group (control group).
• Participants in the Rosie the Chatbot Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will be expected to actively use the chatbot app by asking questions related to maternal and infant health and selecting "thumbs up or thumbs down" to provide feedback for questions' response and use the features (video library, resources page, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and daily syllabus).
• Participants in the Book Club Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will receive a monthly children's book, which they are expected to read with baby if parenting or individually if pregnant.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 14 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 14 years and older
• Racial minority women
• Pregnant or has an infant < 6 months
• Must be able to read English or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

• Mother younger than 14 years of age at time of child's birth.
• Non-hispanic white

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

Rosie the Chatbot Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the Rosie the Chatbot Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will be expected to actively use the chatbot app by asking questions related to maternal and infant health and selecting "thumbs up or thumbs down" to provide feedback for questions' response and using the features (video library, resources page, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and daily syllabus).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Rosie the Chatbot

Book Club Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the Book Club Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will receive a monthly children's book, which they are expected to read with baby if parenting or individually if pregnant.