Holistic Care Partner Program Feasibility and Acceptability

NYU Langone Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Maternal Care

Treatments: Behavioral: Holistic care partner perinatal nurse navigation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06520566

1R21NR020960-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

23-00821

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to build on the knowledge of the United States' ongoing maternal health crisis for Black birthing people. The study team will take a holistic focused approach to build on the experiences of Black women perinatal nurses, Black women/birthing people, and their care partners enrolled in the Holistic Care Partner Program (HCP) to understand the program's feasibility and acceptability. HCP was developed at NYU Langone Health by Blank women-led perinatal nurses to address the effects of obstetric racism and the associated fear of pregnancy and birth faced by Black women and birthing people. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study will focus on understanding HCP's acceptability and feasibility via surveys and qualitative interviews with Black women and birthing people and their partners/support persons to identify strategies and recommendations for intervention improvement. Exploratory analysis of maternal and infant outcomes will be conducted using a propensity score matched historical control group.

Enrollment: 55 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Identify as Black or within the Black/African Diaspora
2. Enrolled in the HCP program while pregnant or within 6 weeks postpartum
3. Enrolled in the Faculty Group Practice at NYU Langone Health (NYULH) for obstetric care
4. Plan to give birth at NYULH Tisch or gave birth at NYULH Tisch if postpartum at screening.
5. Comfortable reading and/or speaking English (approximately 95% of Black women speak English)
6. Are 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

1. Does not identify as Black or within the Black/African Diaspora
2. Did not enroll in the HCP program while pregnant or within 6 weeks postpartum.
3. Not enrolled in the FGP NYULH for obstetric care
4. Does not plan to give birth at NYULH Tisch or did not give birth at NYULH Tisch if postpartum at time of screening.
5. Is not 18 years or older
6. Multiple gestation
7. Significant fetal anomaly requiring exceptional care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 1 patient group

Black Birthing Patients enrolled in Holistic Care Partner Program (HCP)

Experimental group

Description:

Black birthing patients enrolled in HCP will be invited to participate in a brief survey and/or a qualitative interview throughout 1 year of their enrollment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Holistic care partner perinatal nurse navigation