Recruiting

Mobile Application

Sponsor:

IWK Health Centre

Code:

NCT03746678

Conditions

Cesarean Delivery

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

C-Care Mobile Application

Study Details

Brief summary:

With increasingly more complex surgical patients and the trend toward decreased hospital stay after operations, continuity of care and prompt management of symptoms and side effects perioperatively are ever more crucial. The investigators' goal is to improve perioperative care with a patient-centred mobile application, starting with a pilot in patients undergoing elective Cesarean delivery. The investigators have completed a research study where they created a prototype based on feedback from patients and anesthesiologists. In this study, the investigators would like to learn about how patients use our mobile application after delivery and how the mobile application can be integrated into daily practice.

Conditions

Cesarean Delivery

Study ID

NCT03746678

Start date

Nov 19, 2018

Status verified date

Nov, 2018

Completion date

Apr 1, 2019

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 1, 2019

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Part 1 (screened by asking nurse)

  • Patient scheduled for elective Cesarean delivery
  • Age equal or greater than 18
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status I-III (i.e. not in life-threatening situation)

Part 2 (screened in person)

  • Possesses an iOS Smartphone with active data plan and access to WiFi, and self-reported use of it on a regular basis (at this stage in development, the mobile application prototype is only available on iOS)
  • Self-reported proficiency with Smartphone and mobile applications
  • Reported fluency in English

Exclusion Criteria:

Self-reported physical or psychiatric condition that may impair the ability to use the mobile application, answer questionnaires and surveys, and/or provide insights representative of the general population, such as blindness, under current influence of recreational drugs or alcohol.

Study Design

Enrollment

36 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

C-Care Mobile Application

Interventions

C-Care Mobile Application

C-care is a mobile application developed based on previous research at the IWK Health Centre. It contains topics relevant to Cesarean delivery and the recovery process, which the patient could access at anytime. Patient engagement with the application will be monitored anonymously for 30 days after delivery. On days one to five after delivery, patients will receive a short self-monitoring questionnaire (approximately 1 minute). At the end of two weeks (14 days), patients will complete an online survey regarding overall satisfaction, potential impact on care, usability and feasibility problems. At any point during the study, patients can email us to report any problems with the application.

Primary outcome measure

  • Median number of information topics viewed per participant [ Time Frame: 30 days ]
  • Median number of self-monitoring questionnaires completed per participant [ Time Frame: 30 days ]
  • Median number of total visits to the mobile application per participant [ Time Frame: 30 days ]
  • Satisfaction score (scale of 0 to 10, 10 being extremely satisfied, 0 being not satisfied) [ Time Frame: 2 to 3 weeks ]
  • Percentage of participants who would recommend the C-Care App to other women undergoing Cesarean delivery [ Time Frame: 2 to 3 weeks ]
  • Percentage of self-monitoring questionnaires completed (out of 5) per participant [ Time Frame: 30 days ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Janny X Ke, MD

(902) 470-7473AnesthesiaResearch@iwk.nshealth.ca

Ronald B George, MD FRCPC

(902) 470-7473AnesthesiaResearch@iwk.nshealth.ca

Locations

Women's and Obstetric Anesthesia, IWK Health Centre

Recruiting

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3K 6R8

More Information

Sponsor

IWK Health Centre

Last update posted

Nov 20, 2018

Last verified

Nov, 2018

Keywords

  • Cesarean delivery
  • Perioperative medicine
  • Mobile health

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by IWK Health Centre on 2018-11-20.