NCT06877104

Healing at Home 2.0 - Enhanced Chat Tool for Lowering Postpartum Depression

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 156 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if access to a text-message based holistic chatbot support program "Healing at Home 2.0" decreases depressive symptoms as measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) compared to usual postpartum care for patients of color.

Detailed description

Healing at Home (H@H) 2.0 is a comprehensive technology-based postpartum support program which provides 24/7 support to individuals through use of an SMS chatbot for six weeks postpartum. This will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with an intervention arm consisting of patients who are planning to be discharged at routine timing (as determined by their clinical team) with access to H@H 2.0 postpartum SMS chatbot platform and a control arm which consists of usual postpartum care.

Conditions

• Depression, Postpartum
• Postpartum Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Healing @ Home Program (H@H 2.0)	Healing @ Home 2.0 is a clinically used comprehensive technology-based postpartum support program, which provides 24/7 support to individuals through use of a text message based chatbot for six weeks postpartum. Content of H@H 2.0 includes anticipatory guidance regarding physical recovery, infant care and feeding, clinical algorithms to respond to urgent patient needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-13
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-11-01
• First posted: 2025-03-14
• Last updated: 2026-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States