Teen Mom Study Feasibility Trial

Summary

The proposed multicomponent digital health intervention has the potential to significantly impact the trajectory of maternal health in a rural, pregnant, Black adolescent population with the highest risks for cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. The proposed implementation strategy leverages mobile technologies which are ubiquitous across the socioeconomic gradient and proposes to train young adult WIC moms to deliver peer health coaching in a telehealth setting to address social barriers and support behavior change in pregnant, Black adolescent WIC clients in the Mississippi Delta - a rural region where the population is more than two-thirds percent Black and the teen birth rate is the highest in the United States. This is a scalable and sustainable approach to enhance WIC services and improve WIC's impact on population health and cardiometabolic health disparities in Black women.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Sedentary Behavior
• Gestational Weight Gain
• Social Determinants of Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

#BabyLetsMove

The #BabyLetsMove digital health intervention uses a multi-level, systems-change approach. At the systems-level, racially concordant young adult WIC moms will be trained as health coaches. At the person level, adolescent WIC clients will be given empirically supported behavior goals, self-monitoring text messages with automated feedback, tailored skills training materials, a FitBit device, and tailored peer coaching support. The #BabyLetsMove intervention design is based on formative Teen Mom Study findings to build social cognition, affect, and skills to modify 3 concrete, achievable, and easily monitored behavioral targets: (1) Limit television viewing time to less than 2 hours per day; (2) Walk at least 10,000 steps per day; and (3) Do 20 minutes or more of exercise per day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mississippi State Department of Health

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

  collaborator FED

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

  collaborator NIH

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Mississippi Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Abigail Gamble, PhD, MS · University of Mississippi Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

19 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-04-07

Primary Completion

2025-12-31

Completion

2026-06-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations