Adapting the Stanford Obstetric Recovery Checklist in Postpartum Women to a Digital Health Platform: A Feasibility Study (STORK)

April 18, 2026 updated by: Gillian Hilton, Stanford University

Adapting the Stanford Obstetric Recovery Checklist (STORK) to a Digital Health Platform: A Feasibility and User Feedback Study

Explore patient experiences engaging with a digital tool (app- and web-based) to support postpartum recovery.

Postpartum recovery involves physical, emotional, and social changes, and many patients report unmet needs for timely guidance and reassurance. Digital health applications may provide scalable support by collecting patient-reported wellbeing data and delivering tailored education and self-management guidance. However, patient experience, acceptability, perceived usefulness require evaluation to inform implementation and improvements.

Primary objective

• To evaluate patient experience using the postpartum recovery app, including acceptability, usability, and perceived usefulness for the first 12 weeks postpartum.

Secondary objectives

  • To characterize how patients engage with app content over time.
  • To gather patient recommendations for content and wording.
  • To evaluate patient engagement with the app over first 12 weeks postpartum (frequency and duration of use).

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Palo Alto, California, United States, 94305
        • Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital

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.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Able to speak, read and understand English
  • Delivered a live infant
  • 18 years old or older

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Fetal demise / infant death
  • Refusal to participate
  • Less than 18 years old
  • Unable to provide informed consent
  • Unable to speak, read and/or understand English
  • No access to a suitable device to use the digital tool

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Digital application - Postpartum Companion
Participants will be asked to download the digital application to evaluate postpartum recovery and provide informational resources after childbirth for 12 weeks.
Device: A digital application - Postpartum Companion

This is an application that provides mixed media resources to support postpartum mothers, including videos and articles about how to manage postpartum recovery (physical, social, and mental well being).

Participants will be able to use the application beyond the follow up end point of 12 weeks. Data will be collected up to 12 weeks postpartum.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The number of participants that used the digital application
Time Frame: From time of enrollment to up to 12 weeks postpartum
Participant engagement will be measured by the proportion of patients who used the tool
From time of enrollment to up to 12 weeks postpartum

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Gillian Abir, MBBS, Stanford University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

July 1, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

July 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 6, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 6, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

February 13, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 21, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 18, 2026

Last Verified

April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 83257

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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