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NCT05207059: HELMS
Healthy Early Life Moments in Singapore
NA trial testing HELMS Lifestyle Intervention in Metabolic Disease in 500 participants. Currently enrolling.
1 December 2027
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | KK Women's and Children's Hospital |
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| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | prevention |
| Enrollment | 500 |
| Start date | 18 March 2022 |
| Primary completion | 1 December 2027 |
| Estimated completion | 1 December 2028 |
| Sites | 1 location across Singapore |
Drugs / interventions tested
- HELMS Lifestyle Intervention
Conditions studied
- Metabolic Disease — all drugs for Metabolic Disease →
- Mental Health Wellness 1 — all drugs for Mental Health Wellness 1 →
- Lifestyle Risk Reduction — all drugs for Lifestyle Risk Reduction →
- Maternal Obesity — all drugs for Maternal Obesity →
Sponsor
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Who can join
Adults 21 to 40, female only, with Metabolic Disease or Mental Health Wellness 1. Healthy volunteers can join.
What's being measured
Primary outcomes are the specific endpoints the trial is designed to prove or disprove.
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Pregnancy rate
Time frame: Up to 12 months
Defined by positive urine pregnancy test, clinical diagnosis and/or ultrasound scan showing intrauterine gestation sac, in percentages -
Maternal metabolic health
Time frame: Up to 40 months, between preconception, pregnancy and 18 months postpartum
Evaluated by metabolic syndrome criteria -
Maternal mental health
Time frame: Up to 26 months, between preconception, pregnancy and 4 months postpartum
Measured by Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, scored between 0 to 30, with a higher score being suggestive of depression
Sponsor's own description
This study aims to assess whether an integrated continuum of care from the preconception period, across maternity until the first 18 months of life, can promote maternal metabolic and mental health, as well as offspring health, among overweight and obese women.
Publications & conference data
3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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A Golden Thread approach to transforming Maternal and Child Health in Singapore.
Yap F, Loy SL, Ku CW, Chua MC, et al · · 2022 · cited 13× · PMID 35836151 · DOI 10.1186/s12884-022-04893-8 -
Effects of an integrated mobile health lifestyle intervention among overweight and obese women planning for pregnancy in Singapore: protocol for the single-arm healthy early life moments in Singapore (HELMS) study.
Chan JKY, Ku CW, Loy SL, Godfrey KM, et al · · 2022 · cited 7× · PMID 36523242 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061556 -
Maternal stress triggers early-life eczema through fetal mast cell programming.
Serhan N, Abdullah NS, Gheziel N, Loste A, et al · · 2025 · cited 6× · PMID 40866704 · DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-09419-8
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT05207059
- Europe PMC full search
- ASCO Meeting Library
- ESMO Meeting Library
- bioRxiv preprints
- medRxiv preprints
- Google Scholar
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05207059 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by KK Women's and Children's Hospital
- Last refreshed: 8 October 2024
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