Provider and Patient RCT PROMOTE

Summary

Research Aim 1: Determine the effectiveness of PROMOTE vs. usual care to increase patients' receipt of counseling about workplace accommodations and pregnancy. Investigators will recruit and randomize Obstetric providers to the PROMOTE intervention or usual care. The investigators will compare the frequency of EHR documented work- related counseling and adherence to employer documentation recommendations between the two study arms.

Hypothesis: Patients receiving care by a provider randomized to PROMOTE will have higher rates of documented counseling about work and pregnancy.

Research Aim 2: Determine the effectiveness of PROMOTE vs. usual care to reduce undesired wage or advancement reduction, increase accommodation requests granted, and improve maternal-infant health. The investigators will recruit a racially and socioeconomically diverse cohort of 304 pregnant patients and compare responses to surveys and qualitative interviews about work experiences and EHR-documented maternal-infant health outcomes among patients receiving care by providers randomized to PROMOTE vs. usual care.

Hypothesis: Compared to patients receiving care by providers randomized to usual care, participants receiving care by providers randomized to PROMOTE will have less undesired loss of wages and advancement, increased accommodation request granted, and improved maternal-infant health during pregnancy.

Conditions

• Maternal Health
• Pregnancy
• Employment

Interventions

OTHER

PROvider ReMote ObsTetric-Related Employment Education (PROMOTE)

An on-demand 30-minute web-based training for clinical team members that provides a high-level summary of federal employment laws, work note templates embedded into the electronic health record (EHR) that prompt the clinician team member to include relevant information, and a patient-facing infographic designed to facilitate clinician counseling.

OTHER

PROvider ReMote ObsTetric-Related Employment Education (PROMOTE)

An on-demand 30-minute web-based training for clinical team members that provides a high-level summary of federal employment laws, work note templates embedded into the electronic health record (EHR) that prompt the clinician team member to include relevant information, and a patient-facing infographic designed to facilitate clinician counseling.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Duke University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sarahn Wheeler, MD · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2026-08-31

Primary Completion

2028-08-31

Completion

2029-08-31