Premature Birth
Conditions
Keywords
Social Networking, Mobile phone, Antenatal Care, Health education, Maternal outcome, Neonatal outcome
Brief summary
The purpose of the study is to determine whether social networking on mobile phone in antenatal care health education is effective in the improvement of maternal and neonatal outcomes compared with usual antenatal care.
Detailed description
Health Education Intervention with Social Networking (HISONET) is a open-label randomized controlled trial. The objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of social networking media on mobile phone intervention in antenatal care (ANC) group-health education compared with usual ANC health education. The incidence of preterm delivery and major neonatal morbidity including respiratory distress syndrome, stillbirth and perinatal mortality in women delivering from 28 to 36 weeks' gestation are significant outcomes in a randomized prospective design. Preterm delivery occurs in approximately 9.6% as global incidence, and about 11.1% in South-Eastern Asia. Forty-four percent of child under 5 years died in neonatal period. Preterm birth is one of the three leading causes of neonatal death which 15% died from preterm birth complications such as respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, necrotizing entercolitis, and sepsis. Recent studies demonstrate that Short Message Service (SMS) on mobile phone intervention in antenatal care can increase numbers of ANC attendance to WHO recommendation of four or more visits and decrease in perinatal mortality. Social networking on mobile phone has been increasingly used in daily life of both healthcare personnel and women who attend ANC clinic. However, there is lack of evidence that demonstrates the effect of social networking on mobile phone to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. LINE, a mobile application, is a popular one of many social networking applications. So, health education through LINE of antenatal women about serious complications such as labor pain, bleeding, water breaking and fewer fetal movement during pregnancy may encourage them to come to the hospital as early as possible. Early diagnosis of premature labor provides early management and better maternal and neonatal outcomes. So, a randomized controlled trial should be conducted to answer these questions.
Interventions
OTHERsocial networking on mobile phone
Audio-video media about serious complications such as labor pain, vaginal bleeding, water breaking and fewer fetal movement via social networking application on mobile phone to antenatal women from the first ANC visit four times every month and four times biweekly
Sponsors
Nopparatrajathanee Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* women who attend antenatal care clinic and have intention to deliver at the study hospital. * Thai race * participant or husband or relatives is an owner of mobile phone with social networking application
Exclusion criteria
* participant is known by other one in different study arm (contamination) * cannot be assess on wel-being about privacy, delivery failure and misinterpretation of media via social network after complete study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rate of Premature birth | before 37 weeks gestation | Preterm is defined as babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed \[WHO\] |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rate of Stillbirth | after 28 weeks' gestation to birth | A baby born with no signs of life at or after 28 weeks' gestation \[WHO\] |
| Rate of Respiratory Distress Syndrome | 28 days after birth | Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a breathing disorder that affects newborns \[NIH\] |
| Rate of Perinatal Mortality | after 28 weeks' gestation to the first week of life [WHO] | Perinatal mortality refers to the number of stillbirths and deaths in the first week of life (early neonatal mortality). \[WHO\] |
Countries
Thailand
Outcome results
None listed