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Conditions
Brief summary
Explore patient experiences engaging with a digital tool (app- and web-based) to support postpartum recovery. Postpartum recovery involves physical, emotional, and social changes, and many patients report unmet needs for timely guidance and reassurance. Digital health applications may provide scalable support by collecting patient-reported wellbeing data and delivering tailored education and self-management guidance. However, patient experience, acceptability, perceived usefulness require evaluation to inform implementation and improvements. Primary objective • To evaluate patient experience using the postpartum recovery app, including acceptability, usability, and perceived usefulness for the first 12 weeks postpartum. Secondary objectives * To characterize how patients engage with app content over time. * To gather patient recommendations for content and wording. * To evaluate patient engagement with the app over first 12 weeks postpartum (frequency and duration of use).
Interventions
DEVICEA digital application - Postpartum Companion
This is an application that provides mixed media resources to support postpartum mothers, including videos and articles about how to manage postpartum recovery (physical, social, and mental well being). Participants will be able to use the application beyond the follow up end point of 12 weeks. Data will be collected up to 12 weeks postpartum.
Sponsors
Stanford University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
This is an explorative study evaluating patient engagement and feedback on a digital tool to support postpartum recovery.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Able to speak, read and understand English * Delivered a live infant * 18 years old or older
Exclusion criteria
* Fetal demise / infant death * Refusal to participate * Less than 18 years old * Unable to provide informed consent * Unable to speak, read and/or understand English * No access to a suitable device to use the digital tool
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The number of participants that used the digital application | From time of enrollment to up to 12 weeks postpartum | Participant engagement will be measured by the proportion of patients who used the tool |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORGillian Abir, MBBS
Stanford University
Outcome results
None listed