Single Arm Clinical Trial of a Novel Smartphone-based Somatic and Psychological Symptom Monitoring and Decision Support Tool for African American and Spanish Speaking Patients in the Near Postpartum Period
Columbia University
Summary
Pregnancy-related death is a growing public health issues, which are of particular concern to minority groups, including African-Americans and Spanish-speaking Latinas. Our proposal aims to improve a patient's ability to detect warning signs of pregnancy related death and seek medical care.
Description
Pregnancy-related death (PRD) rates have risen 120-200% in the United States in the past two decades, and experts estimate that 40-60% of these cases are preventable. Improvement initiatives are predominantly hospital-based and rely on perinatal people recognizing their own symptoms and seeking care without ample support or education. We hypothesize that we can improve patients' self-efficacy and decision-making about when to seek care by helping them to self-monitor symptoms and by providing decision support. We propose to develop a mHealth-based, patient-reported outcome (PRO) and decision-s…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Greater than 28 weeks pregnant * Receiving healthcare in the United States * Age 18 years or older * \[Identify as Black or African American race AND able to speak and read English, AND preferred language of English\] OR \[Identify as Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity AND Spanish able to speak and read Spanish AND preferred language of Spanish\] * Planned delivery at the following NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals: Children's Hospital of New York, Allen Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Lower Manhattan Hospital Exclusion Criteria: * Severe cognitive impairment * Major psych…
Interventions
- OtherMaternal Outcome Monitoring and Support system
The Maternal Outcome Monitoring and Support system is a mobile health application that allows participants to choose symptoms they may be having that are warning signs of pregnancy related death. They then receive decision support about when they should seek medical care (call their provider or go to an emergency room).
Locations (2)
- NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew York, New York
- NewYork-Prebyterian/Weill Cornell Medical CenterNew York, New York