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Optimizing Family Counseling for Anticipated Extremely Preterm Delivery

NCT03819933 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 460

Last updated 2025-12-16

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Summary

Antenatal family counseling for anticipated extremely preterm deliveries remains ethically and practically challenging for maternal-fetal medicine specialists and neonatologists alike. The overall goal of this project is to improve antenatal counseling and counseling outcomes for families facing anticipated extremely preterm delivery through innovative, interdisciplinary simulation-based education for maternal fetal medicine specialists and neonatologists, using language preferred by families, and focusing on eliciting values and building partnerships through advanced communication and relational skills.

Conditions

  • Preterm Pregnancy
  • Premature Birth

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational intervention

Investigators will first determine preferred language and approaches by families, then redefine current training for prenatal counseling at extreme prematurity by developing and implementing two novel, interdisciplinary simulation-based educational programs for MFM and Neonatology (a workshop and an online module), focusing on eliciting values and building partnerships through advanced communication and relational skills, to improve counseling practices and outcomes

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Christy Cummings · Boston Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-17
Primary Completion
2026-08-01
Completion
2027-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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