SIMPREG
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Smart Intensive Monitoring in PREGnancy
IRAS ID
331488
Contact name
Rebecca M Reynolds
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Edinburgh
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
This study aims to further our understanding of why some babies are stillborn and help us identify new tests that we can offer people in pregnancy to identify babies that might be at risk. Every year, around the world, more than two million babies are stillborn and in many of these cases no clear cause is identified. Our current monitoring looks at mums and babies health using blood tests, blood pressure and ultrasound intermittently but we know this does not provide a complete picture.
Remote monitoring through wearable devices is a rapidly advancing field of technology. These devices can now collect continuous signals like heart rate throughout the day or track movements during sleep. We want to explore whether more continuous monitoring in pregnancy using ‘smart wearables’ could be used to identify those at risk of stillbirth. To do this we need to collect information on what these signals look like in both normal and complicated pregnancies. We are going to focus on measures of the heart as we have very reliable measures that we can do in the clinic, meaning we can validate the information collected from the wearables.
REC name
London - Westminster Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/LO/0751
Date of REC Opinion
29 Sep 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion