Knowledge translation dataset: An e-health intervention for pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease

This article presents data collected from a cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, who expressed interest in family planning and reproductive health in their clinical context. They were randomized (1:1, text-only vs. multimedia content) to access an online e-health portal containing educational information on the topic. The data collected includes baseline demographics, medication history, reproductive history, as well as standardized, validated questionnaires on knowledge (‘CCPKnow’), reproductive concerns, beliefs about medications (‘BMQ’), and medication adherence (‘MARS-5’). These questionnaires were administered prior to the intervention, immediately after accessing the materials, and a minimum of 6 months later (without re-accessing the online material). Two publications have been generated from analysis and aggregation of the CCPKnow data (“Pregnancy-related Beliefs and Concerns of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients are Modified After Accessing e-Health Portal” (Sutton et al., in press), “Innovative Online Educational Portal Improves Disease-Specific Reproductive Knowledge Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease” (Sutton et al., 2018) however this is an extensive dataset that could be analyzed or combined with others’ datasets for further insights.


Subject area
Medicine and dentistry More specific subject area 1

Value of the data
CCPKnow, MARS-5, and BMQ are validated questionnaires, and so this data provides a benchmark for comparison of patient populations from other centers, or contrast to populations from different demographics.
The data is extensive, containing disease history and patient demographics, information on user's technology preferences, methods of learning, and more.
These data can be utilized by researchers with interest in preconception and pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease patient populations, combined with others' datasets, and analyzed for further insights.

Data
The data collected at baseline includes demographics, DOB (converted to birth year to protect PII), highest level of education, employment, income, family history, languages, marital status, and extensive reproductive history including children, current pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and health, future and current family plans. Inflammatory Bowel Disease history was also collected including family history of IBD, diagnosis, year diagnosed, previous and current medications, specialist access, discussion of reproductive topics in IBD, and sources of pregnancy in IBD information accessed. All of this data is included in Appendix A.
2. MARS-5: Self-reported adherence assessment utilizing a 5 statement questionnaire evaluating nonadherent medication taking behaviors [5]. Each statement is scored on a 5-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 ¼ always to 5 ¼ never. 3. BMQ IBD S18: The validated BMQ questionnaire, a version specific to IBD, was used to measure beliefs that influenced adherence to medications. Questions from the BMQ are classified as "specific"(personal beliefs), further subdivided into necessity and concerns scales [6]. Participants ranked statements from each scale on a Likert spectrum (1 ¼ strongly disagree, 5 ¼ strongly agree). This particular version of the BMQ included 8 necessity statements and 9 concerns statements. 4. CCPKnow: 17 item validated score used to measure IBD-specific reproductive knowledge [7].
Correct answers to the questions (5 options each question) are usually summed to form a total score, and typically categorized into levels as follows; i. poor (0-7), ii. adequate (8-10) iii. good (11-13) iv. very good (14-17) Feedback questions were asked regarding the intervention itself at post-intervention and 6 months later. The questions are included in Appendix C. Finally, analytics data on the usage and access time for specific pages and users was pulled from the portal, and is included in the raw datasets.

Design
A prospective randomized intervention study was conducted. Patients were invited to access an online e-health portal for reproductive health information in the context of inflammatory bowel disease. Recruitment methods have been described [1,2]. Upon enrollment, patients completed the pre-intervention questionnaire (Appendices A and B), and were randomized (1:1) to receive access to either a text-only version of the portal content, or a multimedia version containing the same text content supplemented by videos, animated diagrams, slideshow, and self-testing quizzes. Patients were given 60 day access to the portal's content, before completing the post-intervention questionnaire (Appendices B and C). Six months later they completed the same questionnaires again (Appendices B and C).

Educational content
The portal's education content (the 'intervention') was drafted by expert systematic literature review on topics previously found to be of interest to this patient population [4]. Literature up to May 2014 was included. The content was aggregated into five modules: Table 1 Demographics and medical information for participants at three study time points, pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 6 þ months post-intervention.

Category
Pre-intervention Completers **Please note that the content at the above links may have been updated since being used in the described study.

Setting, participant characteristics
Described previously, participants were 18-45 year old male and female IBD patients known to the IBD Clinic (University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada). The IBD Clinic serves patients from all over Alberta, and from surrounding provinces. The demographics have been tabulated for participants completing each of the three study time points (Table 1).