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CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life

BACKGROUND: Recent developments in eHealth and mobile health (mHealth), as well as the introduction of information and communication technology innovations in clinical practice, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and remote examinations, are already changing the current scenario and will continue...

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Autores principales: Brunelli, Laura, Bussolaro, Sofia, Dal Cin, Margherita, Ronfani, Luca, Zanchiello, Sara, Cassone, Andrea, Verardi, Giuseppa, Dobrina, Raffaella, Bava, Michele, Stampalija, Tamara
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9744031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36510286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06953-y
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author Brunelli, Laura
Bussolaro, Sofia
Dal Cin, Margherita
Ronfani, Luca
Zanchiello, Sara
Cassone, Andrea
Verardi, Giuseppa
Dobrina, Raffaella
Bava, Michele
Stampalija, Tamara
author_facet Brunelli, Laura
Bussolaro, Sofia
Dal Cin, Margherita
Ronfani, Luca
Zanchiello, Sara
Cassone, Andrea
Verardi, Giuseppa
Dobrina, Raffaella
Bava, Michele
Stampalija, Tamara
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description BACKGROUND: Recent developments in eHealth and mobile health (mHealth), as well as the introduction of information and communication technology innovations in clinical practice, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and remote examinations, are already changing the current scenario and will continue to generate innovations in the coming decades. The widespread use of mobile devices, with an estimated nearly 30 billion devices and more than 325,000 apps worldwide, will provide various opportunities for people to take control of their own health. Already in 2017, most of the apps available were focused on pregnancy support, more than any other medical field. There have been some reported experiences with social media and mHealth that could benefit the promotion of maternal physical and mental health during pregnancy. However, many apps targeting the first 1000 days of a child’s life do not consider the continuity between the prenatal and postnatal periods and their joint impact on maternal and child health. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this mHealth app to support women during the first 1000 days (from conception to 24 months of age) and to improve health prevention behaviours such as immunizations during pregnancy, weight gain during pregnancy, abstinence from smoking and alcohol consumption, and adherence to the routine childhood immunization schedule. In addition, the study aims to understand the level of appreciation of this mHealth app as a tool to overcome information and communication gaps between patients and institutions. METHODS: Conduction of a randomized controlled trial. DISCUSSION: Our results will be relevant for improving this mHealth app to promote health and prevention and to support the first 1000 days of life for both mother and child. Our results will be relevant to the future expansion of such an mHealth app to promote positive health-related outcomes in patients and co-user satisfaction and to support the organization of health services. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05500339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-022-06953-y.
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spelling pubmed-97440312022-12-13 CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life Brunelli, Laura Bussolaro, Sofia Dal Cin, Margherita Ronfani, Luca Zanchiello, Sara Cassone, Andrea Verardi, Giuseppa Dobrina, Raffaella Bava, Michele Stampalija, Tamara Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Recent developments in eHealth and mobile health (mHealth), as well as the introduction of information and communication technology innovations in clinical practice, such as telemedicine, telemonitoring, and remote examinations, are already changing the current scenario and will continue to generate innovations in the coming decades. The widespread use of mobile devices, with an estimated nearly 30 billion devices and more than 325,000 apps worldwide, will provide various opportunities for people to take control of their own health. Already in 2017, most of the apps available were focused on pregnancy support, more than any other medical field. There have been some reported experiences with social media and mHealth that could benefit the promotion of maternal physical and mental health during pregnancy. However, many apps targeting the first 1000 days of a child’s life do not consider the continuity between the prenatal and postnatal periods and their joint impact on maternal and child health. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this mHealth app to support women during the first 1000 days (from conception to 24 months of age) and to improve health prevention behaviours such as immunizations during pregnancy, weight gain during pregnancy, abstinence from smoking and alcohol consumption, and adherence to the routine childhood immunization schedule. In addition, the study aims to understand the level of appreciation of this mHealth app as a tool to overcome information and communication gaps between patients and institutions. METHODS: Conduction of a randomized controlled trial. DISCUSSION: Our results will be relevant for improving this mHealth app to promote health and prevention and to support the first 1000 days of life for both mother and child. Our results will be relevant to the future expansion of such an mHealth app to promote positive health-related outcomes in patients and co-user satisfaction and to support the organization of health services. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05500339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-022-06953-y. BioMed Central 2022-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9744031/ /pubmed/36510286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06953-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Brunelli, Laura
Bussolaro, Sofia
Dal Cin, Margherita
Ronfani, Luca
Zanchiello, Sara
Cassone, Andrea
Verardi, Giuseppa
Dobrina, Raffaella
Bava, Michele
Stampalija, Tamara
CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life
title CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life
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title_full_unstemmed CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life
title_short CARE 1000: randomized controlled trial for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a mHealth app for supporting the first 1000 days of life
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9744031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36510286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06953-y
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