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Texting for Diabetes Success in Pregnancy

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Northwestern University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy in Diabetics

Treatments

Behavioral: Texting group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03240289
STU00084353

Details and patient eligibility

About

Diabetes during pregnancy can be a challenging circumstance requiring extensive patient learning and self-care. The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot test a patient-centered diabetes education and self-care tool using text messaging to provide supportive messaging and education to underserved women with a pregnancy complicated by diabetes.

Full description

Low-income, pregnant women in the Chicago area are frequently affected by obesity or diabetes. The addition of a disease in pregnancy amplifies the requirements for optimal self-care during pregnancy. This load of information poses a significant burden, particularly for women with additional socioeconomic barriers to self-care. Preliminary work suggests patients must overcome a number of social, psychological, and knowledge-based barriers to achieve successful diabetic control in pregnancy.

This project involves development and preliminary evaluation of a patient-centered education and self-care tool for use with women whose pregnancies are complicated by diabetes. The study begins with development of a text messaging curriculum to provide motivational and educational support. We will use a one-way, non-interactive text-based educational platform to provide supportive and educational messages to a cohort of 40 women with diabetes. Women receive 3-5 text messages per week until delivery. The goal is to develop a program that can be expanded to a clinical trial in which perinatal outcomes are assessed.

The primary outcome is patient satisfaction and opinions about the texting program, as measured via a qualitative interview upon study completion. Participants underwent an enrollment survey to assess health literacy/numeracy, diabetes self-efficacy, diabetes knowledge, personality, and social hassles. They underwent a baseline in-depth one-on-one interview focusing on barriers to successful self-care with pregnancy and diabetes. Follow-up surveys and an exit interview elicited information about their opinions of the texting program. Additional goals included determining feasibility for future expansion as a trial.

Enrollment

33 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Pregnant
  • English-speaking
  • Have gestational diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or type 1 diabetes mellitus
  • Age 18 years or older
  • Access to a phone that can receive text messages

Exclusion criteria

  • Gestational age greater than 30 weeks
  • Women not meeting the above inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

33 participants in 1 patient group

Texting
Other group
Description:
Texting group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Texting group

Trial contacts and locations

0

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