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Meals for Moms: Medically-Tailored Meals for Women Who Had Gestational Diabetes

NCT04866823 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2025-04-29

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Summary

The purpose of this research study is to test whether delivery of medically tailored meals (meals designed specifically to be healthy) can be used to help reduce high blood sugar after delivery of a baby. Participants will be recruited and consented during the third trimester of pregnancy but will begin study activities after delivery. Participants will complete a series of questionnaires on demographics, health history, home environment, overall and financial stress, plans for weight loss and infant feeding, and food insecurity. Participants will also be asked to wear continuous glucose monitors for two separate 14-day periods (within 2 weeks of delivery and at 3 months). All participants will receive weekly emails with educational videos and 3 virtual visits with a member of the study team and will also be randomly assigned to an intervention or comparison group. In the intervention, participants will receive weekly meal deliveries of 10 pre-prepared meals from Providence Community Kitchen (local company in Winston-Salem, NC) that are calorically restricted and appropriate for post-partum women with a history of gestational diabetes and who may be breast-feeding. Women in the control condition will receive written resources on self-care, nutrition, and physical activity appropriate for post-partum women who had gestational diabetes.

Conditions

  • Diabetes, Gestational
  • Gestational Weight Gain
  • Postpartum Weight Retention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Medically Tailored Meals

Participants will receive weekly meals (20 per week) prepared by a local community kitchen and catering group. Each week, 10 dinners and 10 lunches will be delivered to the participant's home with instructions for storage, re-heating, recipes, and nutritional information.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • North Carolina Diabetes Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-20
Primary Completion
2023-01-17
Completion
2023-01-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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