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Home Visiting for Low Income, Pregnant Women

NCT01687634 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 203

Last updated 2017-05-16

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Summary

In the Pico-Union/Koreatown community of Los Angeles investigators are designing a preventive health care model that increases the opportunities for families to make healthy choices -- in their homes, schools \& communities. The project's key element is: Lay community health workers (paraprofessionals) - Mentor Mothers (MM) (promotoras) - who make home visits to pregnant mothers \& newly-delivered mothers who have agreed to participate in the research study.

Investigators hope to achieve the following outcomes: 1) lower maternal BMI at 6 months post-birth; 2) longer duration of breastfeeding; 3) less alcohol, smoking, and drug use during pregnancy; and 4) increased and consistent prenatal and postnatal healthcare adherence.

Investigators will implement the study with 6 MMs, who will maintain an average caseload of 16 women each across an 18-month period. Each participant will be visited (or receive the intervention by telephone) twice per month.

Separate Assessment Team members will conduct assessments at: Baseline, within a week of birth of the target child, and 6 months from birth.

Conditions

  • Pregnant Women
  • Nutrition During Pregnancy
  • Breast Feeding
  • Newborns

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

In-home Mentor Mother visits

Pregnant women will receive twice-monthly in-home (or telephone) visits from a Mentor Mother who will provide information about pregnancy, breastfeeding, nutrition, and infant care.

BEHAVIORAL

Health Information Mailings

Pregnant women will receive twice-monthly mailings that will provide information about pregnancy, breastfeeding, nutrition, and infant care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-07-31

Countries

  • United States

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