Efficacy and Feasibility of an eHealth Intervention for Pregnant Women on Diet, Physical Activity and Knowledge Related to Pregnancy

A pragmatic clinical trial are developed with the aim to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of using an app as complement of the usual care that receive pregnancy women in a sanitary area in the Principado de Asturias (Spain). Participants are pregnancy women attended in the sanitary area number 3 of the Pincipado de Asturias. As inclusion criteria we will consider: i) aged over 18; ii) pregnant with only 1 fetus; iii) low risk pregnancy; iv) smartphone Access; v) signed the informed consent. As exclusion criteria: i) non-fluent Spanish speaker; ii) do not fill the questionnaires. A randon sample of 153 women will be recruited consequtively, at the first triemester, from the midwife consulting room. Those women to agreed to participate, and sign the infomred consent, will be anonymizated using a alphanumerical code and asigned (according to a previous randomization distribution by code) to a control or an intervention group. All women are going to receive the baseline and post intervention questionnaires by email. All women are going to receive the usual care. Adittionally, those in the intervention group, will be prompted to use iNATAL app. The following questionnaires and measures will be used: uMARS Questionnaire to assess and percentage of app usage tot assess the feasibility; to assess the effectiveness: Motiva.Diaf to assess dietary and physical activity recommendations; ad hoc questionnaire to assess knwoldedge pregnancy related; mother complications during of after the pregnancy period and newborn complications. The intervention takes all pregnancy period.

NCT Number	NCT05424237
Lead Sponsor	University of Oviedo
Conditions	Pregnancy Related
Enrollment	153 participants
Start Date	2022-05-01
Primary Completion	2024-12-26 (estimated)
Study Completion	2025-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2024-12-27