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Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial

BACKGROUND: Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is common and associated with negative health outcomes for both mother and child. Mobile health–delivered lifestyle interventions offer the potential to mitigate excessive GWG. The effectiveness of a smartphone app (HealthyMoms) was recently evalua...

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Autores principales: Sandborg, Johanna, Henriksson, Pontus, Larsen, Erica, Lindqvist, Anna-Karin, Rutberg, Stina, Söderström, Emmie, Maddison, Ralph, Löf, Marie
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33666554
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26159
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author Sandborg, Johanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Larsen, Erica
Lindqvist, Anna-Karin
Rutberg, Stina
Söderström, Emmie
Maddison, Ralph
Löf, Marie
author_facet Sandborg, Johanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Larsen, Erica
Lindqvist, Anna-Karin
Rutberg, Stina
Söderström, Emmie
Maddison, Ralph
Löf, Marie
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description BACKGROUND: Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is common and associated with negative health outcomes for both mother and child. Mobile health–delivered lifestyle interventions offer the potential to mitigate excessive GWG. The effectiveness of a smartphone app (HealthyMoms) was recently evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. To explore the users’ experiences of using the app, a qualitative study within the HealthyMoms trial was performed. OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study explored participants’ engagement and satisfaction with the 6-month usage of the HealthyMoms app. METHODS: A total of 19 women (mean age: 31.7, SD 4.4 years; mean BMI: 24.6, SD 3.4 kg/m(2); university degree attainment: 13/19, 68%; primiparous: 11/19, 58%) who received the HealthyMoms app in a randomized controlled trial completed semistructured exit interviews. The interviews were audiorecorded and fully transcribed, coded, and analyzed using thematic analysis with an inductive approach. RESULTS: Thematic analysis revealed a main theme and 2 subthemes. The main theme, “One could suit many: a multifunctional tool to strengthen women’s health during pregnancy,” and the 2 subthemes, “Factors within and beyond the app influence app engagement” and “Trust, knowledge, and awareness: aspects that can motivate healthy habits,” illustrated that a trustworthy and appreciated health and pregnancy app that is easy to use can inspire a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy. The first subtheme discussed how factors within the app (eg, regular updates and feedback) were perceived to motivate both healthy habits and app engagement. Additionally, factors beyond the app were described to both motivate (eg, interest, motivation, and curiosity) and limit (eg, pregnancy-related complications, lack of time) app engagement. The second subtheme reflected important aspects, such as high trustworthiness of the app, increased knowledge, and awareness from using the app, which motivated participants to improve or maintain healthy habits during pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS: The HealthyMoms app was considered a valuable and trustworthy tool to mitigate excessive GWG, with useful features and relevant information to initiate and maintain healthy habits during pregnancy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03298555; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03298555 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR2-10.2196/13011
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spelling pubmed-79801132021-03-24 Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial Sandborg, Johanna Henriksson, Pontus Larsen, Erica Lindqvist, Anna-Karin Rutberg, Stina Söderström, Emmie Maddison, Ralph Löf, Marie JMIR Mhealth Uhealth Original Paper BACKGROUND: Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is common and associated with negative health outcomes for both mother and child. Mobile health–delivered lifestyle interventions offer the potential to mitigate excessive GWG. The effectiveness of a smartphone app (HealthyMoms) was recently evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. To explore the users’ experiences of using the app, a qualitative study within the HealthyMoms trial was performed. OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study explored participants’ engagement and satisfaction with the 6-month usage of the HealthyMoms app. METHODS: A total of 19 women (mean age: 31.7, SD 4.4 years; mean BMI: 24.6, SD 3.4 kg/m(2); university degree attainment: 13/19, 68%; primiparous: 11/19, 58%) who received the HealthyMoms app in a randomized controlled trial completed semistructured exit interviews. The interviews were audiorecorded and fully transcribed, coded, and analyzed using thematic analysis with an inductive approach. RESULTS: Thematic analysis revealed a main theme and 2 subthemes. The main theme, “One could suit many: a multifunctional tool to strengthen women’s health during pregnancy,” and the 2 subthemes, “Factors within and beyond the app influence app engagement” and “Trust, knowledge, and awareness: aspects that can motivate healthy habits,” illustrated that a trustworthy and appreciated health and pregnancy app that is easy to use can inspire a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy. The first subtheme discussed how factors within the app (eg, regular updates and feedback) were perceived to motivate both healthy habits and app engagement. Additionally, factors beyond the app were described to both motivate (eg, interest, motivation, and curiosity) and limit (eg, pregnancy-related complications, lack of time) app engagement. The second subtheme reflected important aspects, such as high trustworthiness of the app, increased knowledge, and awareness from using the app, which motivated participants to improve or maintain healthy habits during pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS: The HealthyMoms app was considered a valuable and trustworthy tool to mitigate excessive GWG, with useful features and relevant information to initiate and maintain healthy habits during pregnancy. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03298555; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03298555 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR2-10.2196/13011 JMIR Publications 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7980113/ /pubmed/33666554 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26159 Text en ©Johanna Sandborg, Pontus Henriksson, Erica Larsen, Anna-Karin Lindqvist, Stina Rutberg, Emmie Söderström, Ralph Maddison, Marie Löf. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 05.03.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Sandborg, Johanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Larsen, Erica
Lindqvist, Anna-Karin
Rutberg, Stina
Söderström, Emmie
Maddison, Ralph
Löf, Marie
Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title_full Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title_fullStr Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title_full_unstemmed Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title_short Participants’ Engagement and Satisfaction With a Smartphone App Intended to Support Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Qualitative Study Within the HealthyMoms Trial
title_sort participants’ engagement and satisfaction with a smartphone app intended to support healthy weight gain, diet, and physical activity during pregnancy: qualitative study within the healthymoms trial
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33666554
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26159
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