Skip to main content
OpenTrials
Completed

NCT Number: NCT05282368

Preparing Heart and Mind™: A Patient Engagement Pathway for Parents and Their Caregiving Partners After a Major Fetal Anomaly Diagnosis

The purpose of this study is to test and evaluate the Preparing Heart and Mind™ (PHM™) patient engagement pathway as a nurse-guided intervention to lower psychological distress and enhance caregiving competencies among mothers/birthing persons and their caregiving partners after a major fetal anomaly diagnosis.

Completed

Looking for future studies?

Notify Me

Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • A study participant can include a pregnant person past 20 weeks of pregnancy (this includes a vulnerable population)
  • Willing and able to comply with study procedures.
  • Participants must be ≥ 18 years old.
  • Participants must be able to read, write and speak English.
  • Participants must have access, and ability to use a smartphone, tablet, or computer in a private location.
  • The pregnant woman/person and her caregiving partner are planning for infant delivery and care.
  • The fetal diagnosis of the major anomaly affects the heart (i.e., CCHD). See definition of CCHD included earlier in the protocol. Other anomalies could be present and potentially impair other organs.
  • The infant's anomaly will likely require surgical and/or medical intervention within the first year of life.
  • The fetus/infant is expected to live with surgical and/or medical intervention (this includes a vulnerable population).
  • There may be genetic and/or chromosomal conditions in addition to the heart/structural anomalies

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy termination
  • The fetal anomaly diagnosis is highly likely to result in fetal or infant demise shortly after birth.
  • Adults lacking the capacity to consent
  • Adults who do not have access to a smart phone, tablet, or device.
  • Caregiving partner cannot enroll if mother is not enrolled

Treatment and study plan

PHM™ Pathway

Behavioral

The technological platform referred to as Preparing Heart and Mind™ (PHM™) is designed as a patient engagement pathway. This platform includes GetWellNetwork's proprietary workflow engine, Patient Pathways™ and functionality of the Health Loop platform. Specifically, PHM™ will be created on a customized GetWellNetwork patient engagement pathway, getwell | Loop, which is a secure platform with a parent-facing app and an interactive dashboard for healthcare providers. The PHM™ getwell | Loop is a care program with chapters that incorporate interactive resources for patient information and education, trackers as touch points for psycho-social/educational support, and tailors care with condition-specific content, as well as action items.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in State-Trait Anxiety Inventory score

    Time frame: 12 weeks after birth

    State subscale, 20 items, 4-point scale; State Anxiety cut point score ≥40

  2. Change in Center for Epidemiology Scale-Depression (CES-D) score

    Time frame: 12 weeks after birth

    20 items, 4-point scale; cut point score ≥16

  3. Change in Impact of Event Scale score

    Time frame: 12 weeks after birth

    22 items, 4-point scale; cut point score ≥ 24

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Minnesota

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Mar 16, 2022
Registry last updated
May 1, 2023

OpenTrials presents study information sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov. The official registry record should be consulted for the latest information.

View the official ClinicalTrials.gov record (opens in a new tab)

This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

Published trials that share one or more normalized conditions with this study.