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Sugar TextSugar Text: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Text Message Intervention for Women With Diabetes in Pregnancy

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What is being tested

Text Message Intervention

Behavioral
Who is being recruted

Urogenital Diseases+6

+ Diabetes Mellitus

+ Endocrine System Diseases

From 18 to 50 Years
+5 Eligibility Criteria
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How is the trial designed

Services Research Study

Interventional
Study Start: January 2013
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Summary

Principal SponsorUniversity of Pennsylvania
Last updated: January 27, 2026
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Study start date: January 1, 2013

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

Maternal diabetes in pregnancy can negatively impact fetal well-being and contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Much of the morbidity associated with diabetes in pregnancy can be minimized with tight glucose control. A number of studies in non-pregnant populations have highlighted the feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of text messaging interventions for improving diabetic compliance and control. This study will investigate whether a text messaging intervention is feasible and effective in an urban, diabetic, obstetric clinic and whether this intervention can improve compliance with diabetes care, glucose control and pregnancy outcomes. The study will also assess satisfaction with the intervention itself.

Official TitleSugar Text: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Text Message Intervention for Women With Diabetes in Pregnancy
Principal SponsorUniversity of Pennsylvania
Last updated: January 27, 2026
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Protocol

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

30 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Services Research Study

These studies look at how healthcare is delivered, managed, and organized. They aim to improve care quality, patient experience, and access to treatment.



Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Female

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 18 to 50 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Urogenital DiseasesDiabetes MellitusEndocrine System DiseasesFemale Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy ComplicationsMetabolic DiseasesNutritional and Metabolic DiseasesPregnancy ComplicationsDiabetes, GestationalGlucose Metabolism Disorders

Criteria

2 inclusion criteria required to participate
Pregnant women aged 18-50 years

Planned delivery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

3 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
Gestational age greater than 34 weeks at initial visit in the Penn Perinatal Diabetes Program

Women who are unable to read English as all text messages will be in English

Women who do not have a cellular phone capable of receiving text messages as this is the study intervention

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

One single intervention group is designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
The text message intervention group receives usual prenatal and diabetic care in addition to two text messages per week throughout the pregnancy and a reminder text message prior to the postpartum visit. The text message intervention group also fills out a survey about the intervention after delivery.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

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This study has 1 location

Suspended

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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CompletedOne Study Center
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