Just Walk It! Using Active10

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Just Walk It! Encouraging use of the Active10 app after a hypertensive pregnancy: feasibility study

• IRAS ID

  274532

• Contact name

  Mohammad Sharif Razai

• Contact email

  mrazai@sgul.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  St George's University of London

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  2020.0047, JRES Reference Number

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 21 days

• Research summary

  Women who experienced high blood pressure during pregnancy (HDP) are at increased risk of high blood pressure in future. Regular brisk walking might reduce the long term risk of developing high blood pressure in these women. The Free Active10 app, developed by Public Health England, encourages 10 minutes brisk walking every day. The Active10 app has not been evaluated in a trial.

  Aims:
  To conduct feasibility study of giving postnatal women who had HDP a ‘just walk it’ leaflet encouraging use of the Active10 app to encourage brisk walking, followed by a telephone call after 2 weeks and 4 weeks to assess:
  1. How many women downloaded the Active10 app
  2. How many women used it to monitor their brisk walking
  3. How many achieved 10 minutes brisk walking in a day as recorded on the app

  Methods:
  We will recruit 20 women with HDP from hospital wards/clinics. Two months after delivery we will request that participants measure their BP, height, weight and waist circumference and administer a health questionnaire.

  A week later the women will be posted leaflet (attached) providing information on possible benefits of brisk walking after HDP and encouraging them to download and use the Active10 app to monitor brisk walking.

  A researcher will telephone them after 2 weeks. If they have not downloaded or used the app he will encourage them to try it and arrange a further call after 2 weeks. If they have, he will ask them to share their brisk walking activity from the app by sending an anonymised screen shot. The assessments will be repeated at 5 months postnatal in patient’s GP surgery or a telephone interview will be conducted.
  
  Outcomes:
  1. How many women downloaded the Active10 app
  2. How many women used it to monitor their brisk walking
  3. How many achieved 10 minutes brisk walking in a day
  

• REC name

  London - City & East Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/LO/0693

• Date of REC Opinion

  18 May 2020

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion