NCT05318287

Walk With Me for Perinatal Grief

Walk With Me (WWM) for Perinatal Grief

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research will contribute to therapeutic technology to support bereaved parents who have experienced a perinatal loss. The proposed mobile application would accomplish this objective by providing a series of therapeutic modules to provide parents with tools to normalize their grief and additional coping skills to support the grieving process.

Detailed description

The investigators will develop grief processing and healing activities for bereaved parents, via an iterative formative development process with stakeholder input. The investigators will embed the core intervention components in administrative, provider, and client interfaces which will comprise the prototype Walk with Me (WWM) intervention. The investigators will evaluate its feasibility and initial efficacy of WWM in a within-subjects pre-post design study. The investigators will provide the mobile-based provider component for use by health care professionals (HCPs) who work in the partner hospital. HCPs will have access to training videos and bereaved parent content. After training, the HCPs will recruit 52 bereaved parents. HCPs will obtain consent from bereaved parents who express interest in the study to share their contact information with the research team. Parents who wish to participate will provide consent for their own participation in the study. After consent, parents will complete the baseline survey via the Qualtrics online assessment form and then be provided download access to the WWM prototype. At 4 and 8 weeks, parents will be administered post-treatment surveys. This design will allow the investigators to evaluate baseline to follow-up change in the proposed study outcomes and acceptability of the prototype WWM program. Baseline and post-treatment surveys will measure bereaved parents traumatic stress, grief intensity, grief, grief management self-efficacy, and care experiences. The post-survey questionnaire will contain measures of usability, as well as any difficulties experienced or problems made worse. Demographics will be collected at the baseline assessment. Project staff will follow-up with parents as needed to encourage survey completion in a timely manner.

Conditions

• Grief
• Traumatic Stress
• Usability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Walk with Me	Walk with Me is a perinatal grief mobile application to provide supportive care to bereaved parents. The application includes modules to guide bereaved parents through strategies to help support them through their grieving.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-12
• Completion: 2023-09-30
• First posted: 2022-04-08
• Last updated: 2025-06-04
• Results posted: 2024-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States