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Virtual Mentorship to Support Maternal and Infant Health and Wellbeing: Assessing the Impact and Efficacy of NurturePA

NCT03497286 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 199

Last updated 2021-08-16

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Summary

The primary objective of this study is to determine whether the NurturePA text-based mentorship program reduces maternal stress and depressive symptoms, increases maternal knowledge, and increases engagement in language and literacy practices among new mothers relative to the control condition of periodic informational texts at the four-month data collection point.

Conditions

  • Mothers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Text-based mentorship

The treatment is a text-based peer-to-peer mentorship program for new mothers to promote the healthy development of young children by enhancing the parenting skills of the children's parents. Volunteer mentors who are experienced parents are paired with the parents of newborns. Mentors use text messaging to communicate with, support and encourage new parents while providing best-practice information, answers to the parents' questions, suggestions regarding activities to foster healthy development, and reminders about key milestone activities. The typical NurturePA mentor-mother pair communicates back-and-forth multiple times per week, at any time of the day.

BEHAVIORAL

Control text messaging

Control participants will receive periodic texts from NurturePA with information about child safety and health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Allegheny Singer Research Institute (also known as Allegheny Health Network Research Institute)

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Michigan

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lindsay C Page, Ed.D. · University of Pittsburgh

  • Christina Weiland, Ed.D. · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-09
Primary Completion
2021-08-01
Completion
2021-08-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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