RECRUITING

Novel Visual Education Tool to Improve Recognition and Reporting of Postpartum Urgent Maternal Warning Signs

Description

This study aims to create a novel visual education tool that builds on the urgent maternal warning signs identified by The Council on Patient Safety in Women's Health Care. Including effective images will improve the understanding of these grave warning signs/symptoms, improving anatomical accuracy while remaining simplistic for patients of varying levels of health care literacy. The investigative team will be focusing on urgent warning signs pertinent to the postpartum period.

Conditions

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study aims to create a novel visual education tool that builds on the urgent maternal warning signs identified by The Council on Patient Safety in Women's Health Care. Including effective images will improve the understanding of these grave warning signs/symptoms, improving anatomical accuracy while remaining simplistic for patients of varying levels of health care literacy. The investigative team will be focusing on urgent warning signs pertinent to the postpartum period.

Novel Visual Education Tool to Improve Recognition and Reporting of Postpartum Urgent Maternal Warning Signs

Novel Visual Education Tool to Improve Recognition and Reporting of Postpartum Urgent Maternal Warning Signs

Condition
Postpartum
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60614

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Postpartum women
  • * Nulliparity
  • * Age \>18 years of age
  • * English speaking patients
  • * Inability to provide informed written consent
  • * Refusal to participate in all study-related procedures
  • * Patients not fluent in English
  • * Patients with current or history of serious peripartum complications and/or events - such as DVT, PE, peripartum cardiomyopathy, etc. (in which the patient may have received more than standard clinical counseling)
  • * Patient with comorbidities that potentially require anticoagulation i.e. coagulopathies and may be more prone to DVTs
  • * Patients with uncorrected visual or hearing impairment
  • * Healthcare providers (in which patients will have significant background knowledge)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Northwestern University,

Kaitlyn Neumann, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Northwestern University

Study Record Dates

2026-08