Status:

COMPLETED

Using Teach Back to Improve Postpartum Maternal-infant Health Among Women With Limited Maternal Health Literacy

Lead Sponsor:

Anhui Provincial Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

Aalto University

Conditions:

Pregnant Women

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial study with two arms teach-back group vs. controlled group. We decided the assignment of the women to each group by tossing a coin (heads for the teach-back group ...

Detailed Description

Education for teach-back group and control group During the trial, women from teach-back group and controlled group will receive three education sessions arranged by trained nursing supervisors who pl...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • over 18 years of age;
  • basically healthy and without being diagnosed with pregnancy complications;
  • with sufficient commands of communication in Chinese ;
  • at the pregnancy week between 37+0 and 41+6 but having no sign of labor or getting into the first stage of labor;
  • obtaining 27 or less points in the baseline measurement of MHL using perinatal maternal health literacy scale.
  • and Newborns who were :
  • born between 37 and 42 weeks of gestation age;
  • having a minimum apgar score of 8 after 5 minutes of being born;
  • with birth weights between 2500g and 4000g.

Exclusion

  • women suffered from severe perinatal complications which required advanced special care e.g. transferring to intensive care unit (ICU)
  • fetal congenital malformations were diagnosed during the trial
  • women did not completed any of the required education sessions planned in the trial.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 17 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 12 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

258 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04858945

Start Date

May 17 2021

End Date

September 12 2021

Last Update

November 2 2021

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the First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China

Hefei, Anhui, China, 240001