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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03062228
Date of registration: 19/02/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: IWK Health Centre
Public title: KBTH-GIRHL Healthy Birth Weight Study: A Cross-Section KBTH-HBWS
Scientific title: Korle Bu Teaching Hospital - Global Innovations for Reproductive Health & Life Healthy Birth Weight Study: A Cross-Section
Date of first enrolment: April 28, 2016
Target sample size: 162
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03062228
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Ghana
Contacts
Name:     Maxfield Okere, B.Sc.
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Low-risk singleton pregnancy

- *Delivered a live birth >28 weeks gestation at KBTH within the past 48 hours.

- Residing in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area or area served by the KBTH.

- Fluent in either English, Twi, or Ga

- **Has not received education/ information about back sleep position in pregnancy as a
potential risk factor for stillbirth and low birth weight.

Exclusion Criteria:

- BMI = 35 at booking (first antenatal appointment for current pregnancy)

- Pregnancy complicated by obstetric complications (hypertension [pre-eclampsia,
gestational hypertension, chronic hypertension], diabetes [gestational or not], or
intra-uterine growth restriction [<10th %ile for growth])

- Sleep complicated by medical conditions (known to get <4 hours of sleep per night due
to insomnia, or musculoskeletal disorder that prevents sleeping on a certain side
[e.g., arthritic shoulder])

- Multiple pregnancy

- Known fetal abnormality

- Maternal age >35



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 35 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Sleep
Infant, Small for Gestational Age
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Fetal Growth Retardation
Pregnancy
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Customized Birth Weight Centile [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Birth Weight of Baby [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Low Birth Weight [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Gestational Age at Delivery [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Sex of Newborn [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Mode of Delivery [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Preterm Delivery [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Small for Gestational Age [Time Frame: Within 48 hours of delivery of baby (on average, 38 - 40 weeks gestation)]
Secondary ID(s)
KBTH-IRB/00020/2016
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University of Ghana Medical School
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Innovative Canadians for Change
Dalhousie University
Global Innovations for Reproductive Health & Life
University of Michigan
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 31/03/2020
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT03062228
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