Feasibility of smart wristbands for continuous monitoring during pregnancy and one month after birth | Semantic Scholar (2024)

The smart wristband with IoT technology was a feasible system for collecting representative data on continuous variables of health parameters during pregnancy and thus may help target and tailor pregnancy follow-up.

Women reported high motivation to wear an ATD and high satisfaction with actually using a ATD during pregnancy; however adherence to the study protocol was lower than expected and ATD technical problems were frequent.

Sleep duration across gestation in women who wore an activity-tracking device (ATD) during pregnancy is described and the association between sleep duration and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes is studied.

There was many studies that focused on development and/or validation of wearable devices, even if often they included a limited number of pregnant women without pregnancy complications, and there was still insufficient evidence to design effective interventions.

The Oura ring overestimated the step counts compared with the ActiGraph; the use of the ring in nursing interventions needs to be considered.

The findings showed that Finnish pregnant women coped well with the pandemic-related restrictions and lockdown environment in terms of stress, physical activity and sleep.

These results show wide acceptance of self-examination using mobile systems for fetal ultrasonography during pregnancy, and image quality was adequate for assessing the amniotic fluid and fetal heartbeat in most participants.

It was found that participants that experienced pregnancy complications in the past were overall more open toward the use of wearable devices in pregnancy, while participants that experienced pregnancy complications in the past were overall more open toward the use of wearable devices in pregnancy.

The authors' fine-grained objective measurements indicate that the sleep duration and sleep efficiency are deteriorated in pregnancy and notably in postpartum, and it is shown that the model enables individualized and effective care for sleep disturbances during pregnancy, as compared to a baseline method.

Wearable sensors are a promising, noninvasive, patient friendly approach to support the early detection of intraamniotic infection in women with PPROM, however, confirmation of the findings in larger studies is required before implementing this technique in standard clinical management.

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PA devices show moderate/strong reliability and moderate validity for measuring PA during pregnancy and postpartum.

Activity monitoring has the potential to engage patients as advocates in their personalized care, as well as offer health care providers real world assessments of their patients’ daily activity patterns.

The availability of wrist-worn fitness wearables and analyze availability of relevant fitness sensors from 2011 to 2017 was examined to assess brand usage in research projects, compare common brands in terms of developer access to collected health data, and features to consider when deciding which brand to use in future research.

Some level of exercise among pregnant women appears to be more advantageous than no exercise at all, and moderate exercise, while still unclearly defined, may be a worthwhile adjunct treatment to combat sleep disturbances during pregnancy.

HR from Wearable devices differed at different exercise intensities; EE estimates from wearable devices were inaccurate; users should be cautious when using these devices for monitoring physiological responses to exercise.

The most important determinants are technical condition, age, user experience, and goal-related factors, which suggest that activity tracking is potentially beneficial for a broad range of target groups, but more attention should be paid to technical and user experience–related aspects of activity trackers.

While there are some preliminary data to suggest these devices may have the potential to increase activity levels through self-monitoring and goal setting in the short term, more research is needed to establish longer-term effects on behavior.

Pregnancy is an opportunity to promote long-term women's health with a better understanding of the relationship between weight management and healthy sleep habits and analyses of the interaction of pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain indicated that excess weight gain was associated with shorter sleep duration and more sleep disruption, but only among women who were overweight before pregnancy.

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