# Essential Coaching Postpartum: Evaluating a Parent-focused Postpartum Text Message Program in Nova Scotia

> **NCT06996067** · NA · RECRUITING · sponsor: **IWK Health Centre** · enrollment: 332 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Parenting Self-efficacy
- Postpartum Anxiety
- Postpartum Depression (PPD)
- Postpartum Stress
- Mental Health
- Co-parenting Practices

## Interventions

- **BEHAVIORAL:** Essential Coaching Postpartum

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT06996067
- **Lead sponsor:** IWK Health Centre
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2025-06-05
- **Primary completion:** 2026-12
- **Final completion:** 2027-06
- **Target enrollment:** 332 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-27


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06996067

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT06996067, "Essential Coaching Postpartum: Evaluating a Parent-focused Postpartum Text Message Program in Nova Scotia". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT06996067. Licensed CC0.

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