Interpregnancy Care Project-Mississippi (IPC-M)

Summary

The IPC program will enroll women who deliver Very Low Birth Weight babies (stillborn or liveborn) at University of Mississippi Medical Center and women who have Very Low Birth Weight babies that receive treatment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University of Mississippi Medical Center and provide each woman with 24 months of funded comprehensive, integrated, primary health care services (including family planning, social services, general medical services,and basic dental care), and enhanced case management. The services will be community-based (via UMC Clinics, community health centers, and outreach programs) and will be provided by a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, case managers, and Resource Mothers/Resource Workers. At the end of project follow-up, we will evaluate the success of the program in terms of improvement of general health status of enrolled women, and subsequent reproductive health outcomes (i.e., achieving reproductive intentions, intendedness and spacing of subsequent pregnancies, birth weight distribution of subsequent pregnancies) and cost of delivery services compared to reproductive health outcomes in the project's control population.

Conditions

• Premature Birth

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interpregnancy Care

The intervention package includes: 1) Creation of an individualized interpregnancy care plan based on assessments of risks for subsequent poor pregnancy outcomes; 2) Basic dental care and provision of primary health care services for 24 months; 3) Assistance in achieving a woman's desire for subsequent pregnancies and her need for optimum child spacing (ideally at least 18 months); 4) Provision of appropriate social services and community outreach in each woman's community.

BEHAVIORAL

Interpregnancy Care

The intervention package includes: 1) Creation of an individualized interpregnancy care plan based on assessments of risks for subsequent poor pregnancy outcomes; 2) Basic dental care and provision of primary health care services for 24 months; 3) Assistance in achieving a woman's desire for subsequent pregnancies and her need for optimum child spacing (ideally at least 18 months); 4) Provision of appropriate social services and community outreach in each woman's community.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mississippi State Department of Health

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Federally Qualified Community Health Centers

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Mississippi Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Glen Graves, MD · University of Mississippi Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

13 Years

Max Age

44 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2009-02-28

Primary Completion

2013-12-31

Completion

2013-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations