This grant competition provides support for pilot studies in women’s and newborn’s health, which aim to generate preliminary data; test new approaches, methodologies or tools; bring new teams together; and/or support new research in women’s and newborn’s health from established researchers
PROJECT TITLE:
Home Assessment of Blood Pressure in Pregnancy (HABPY)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
Karen Tran, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia; General Internist, Vancouver General Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital
CO-INVESTIGATORS:
Wee Shian Chan, Nadia Khan, Allison Thiele, KS Joseph and Sarka Lisonkova
SUMMARY:
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) is due to high blood pressure (BP) during pregnancy. This can lead to complications to mom and baby. Detecting and treating high BP can prevent these problems. One solution is home BP telemonitoring (HBPT). We will conduct a study to see the feasibility, safety, and acceptability of HBPT program among pregnant people with HDP.
Pregnant people with HDP will measure their BP at home and send BP readings to their doctor using an App. Their doctor will monitor their BP and adjust their medications. To test for feasibility, we will calculate how many people are interested, join, complete, or drop out from the study. We will see how many develop very high BP to ensure safety of HBPT. Participants will complete surveys about their experience. If we can get better control of BP in pregnancy, we can potentially improve the health of moms and babies
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Tran and her team on this wonderful achievement!