Building Equitable Linkages With Interprofessional Education Valuing Everyone (BELIEVE)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Pregnancy Related; Postpartum; Pain

Treatments: Other: Usual Care; Behavioral: BELIEVE IPE Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06483022

24-1258

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a step-wedge design implementation protocol of an interprofessional education curriculum intervention that is delivered through virtual reality and designed to reduce disparities and improve patient experiences in receiving maternal healthcare.

Enrollment: 32,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Healthcare Team Participants

• Employed as one of the following roles: maternity care provider, nurse, lactation consultant or doula.
• Primary inpatient clinical assignment is maternity care.
• If Per Diem: Employed for a minimum of 4 shifts/month at a participating site.

Birthing Parent Data Extraction Participants

• Had a live birth at a participating site from the start of the study through the last Data Retrieval timepoint.

Birthing Parent Interview Participants

• Had a live birth at a participating site from the start of the study through the last Data Retrieval timepoint.
• Black race or Limited English Proficiency with preferred language of Spanish.
• Age ≥ 18.

Exclusion criteria

Healthcare Team Participants

• None

Birthing Parent Data Extraction Participants

• Baby with birth gestational age < 24 weeks.

Birthing Parent Interview Participants

• Baby with birth gestational age < 24 weeks.
• Baby is no longer alive at time of Data Retrieval (regardless of gestational age).
• Currently incarcerated.
• Previously completed a birthing parent interview for the BELIEVE study.
• Previously enrolled as a Healthcare Team Participant.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32,000 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Pre-intervention

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

In the pre-intervention sequence(s), birthing people at participating hospitals will experience treatment-as-usual.

Treatment:

Other: Usual Care

Post-intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

In the post-intervention sequence(s), birthing people at participating hospitals will experience treatment by health care teams that have undergone the Building Equitable Linkages With Interprofessional Education Valuing Everyone interprofessional education (BELIEVE IPE) training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BELIEVE IPE Training