Rosie the Chatbot: Leveraging Automated and Personalized Health Information Communication

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Rosie the Chatbot is an educational chatbot that moms can have on their computers or cellphones and will work by moms typing in their questions about pregnancy, health, infant milestones, and other variety of health related topics and receiving back a response immediately. Rosie only provides information from verified sources such as children's hospitals, health organizations and government agencies. Rosie does not ask moms to provide any personal information on her or her child, her chat is completely confidential, it works in English and Spanish and will be free.

Detailed Description
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This study will examine whether the use of a chatbot to impart health information to minority women during pregnancy and postpartum period improves health care seeking behavior and maternal and infant health outcomes. This study does not involve administration of an investigational intervention and therefore poses minimal risk to participants. Aim 1: Develop technology for a chatbot that will provide health information support to vulnerable mothers the moment they need it. Aim 2: Evaluate the use of Rosie on maternal and infant outcomes. Aim 3: Release an open-source packet for the construction of a chatbot. Participants in the study will be randomly assigned into one of two groups, Rosie the Chatbot group (treatment group) and Book Club group (control group). Participants in the Rosie the Chatbot Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will be expected to actively use the chatbot app by asking questions related to maternal and infant health and selecting thumbs up or thumbs down to provide feedback for questions' response and use the features (video library, resources page, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and daily syllabus). Participants in the Book Club Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will receive a monthly children's book, which they are expected to read with baby if parenting or individually if pregnant.

Official Title
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Rosie the Chatbot: Leveraging Automated and Personalized Health Information Communication to Reduce Disparities in Maternal and Child Health

Conditions
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Pregnancy, Postpartum Depression, Infant Development, Infant Conditions

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Rosie the Chatbot


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Age 14 years and older Racial minority women Pregnant or has an infant < 6 months Must be able to read English or Spanish Exclusion Criteria: Mother younger than 14 years of age at time of child's birth. Non-hispanic white

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 14 Years
Maximum Age: 99 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Rosie the Chatbot Group<br>Participants in the Rosie the Chatbot Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will be expected to actively use the chatbot app by asking questions related to maternal and infant health and selecting thumbs up or thumbs down to provide feedback for questions' response and using the features (video library, resources page, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and daily syllabus). | Behavioral: Rosie the Chatbot<br>* Participants in the intervention group will be using the chatbot to ask questions related to the mom and baby's health, provide feedback selecting thumbs up or thumbs down on the questions' response, and use the features (video library, resources page, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and daily syllabus). In addition, participants will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey.<br>|
| No Intervention: Book Club Group<br>Participants in the Book Club Group will be taking a pre-test health survey, mid-test health survey, and post-test health survey. In addition, they will receive a monthly children's book, which they are expected to read with baby if parenting or individually if pregnant. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maternal postpartum depression | The investigators will utilize the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Scale to measure maternal depression. This scale can range from 0 to 27, since each of the 9 items can be scored from 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly every day). Higher scores indicate worse depression severity. | 12 months post randomization | 
| Number of emergency room visits | The investigators will measure the number of visits to the emergency room. | 12 months post randomization | 
| Attendance of well-baby visits (preventive healthcare visits) | The investigators will measure the number of well-baby visits. | 12 months post randomization | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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chatbot, health information, racial/ethnic health disparities, maternal and child health, artificial intelligence, question-answering models