Four-country study brings digital health coaching into everyday maternity care
Researchers at University College Dublin (UCD) have published the full study protocol for Bump2Baby & Me+ (B2B&Me+) in the journal PLOS One. The study tests how a digital health coaching program for pregnant women at risk of gestational diabetes performs when it moves out of a clinical trial and into routine hospital care. The publication coincides with the close of the study's recruitment phase,…
Researchers at University College Dublin have published a study protocol for a digital health coaching program called Bump2Baby & Me+ (B2B&Me+). The program aims to determine how effective it is when integrated into regular hospital maternity care for pregnant women at risk of gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes affects around 1 in 7 pregnancies globally and increases the risk of type 2 diabetes for both mothers and babies.
The rates of gestational diabetes are rising due to factors such as women having children later in life and obesity. The B2B&Me+ trial will be conducted in four maternity hospitals across Europe - the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, University Hospital San Cecilio in Granada, Sørlandet Hospital Trust in Kristiansand, and Pomeranian Medical University Hospital in Szczecin.
The study will compare the effects of the health coaching program with usual care, as well as different methods of inviting at-risk women to participate. The findings will contribute to a European implementation toolkit to help other healthcare services adopt the program.
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