Technology-Based Intervention for Reducing Sexually Transmitted Infections and Substance Use During Pregnancy

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Use Complicating Pregnancy, Unspecified Trimester; Alcohol Use Complicating the Puerperium; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Drug Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Health Check-up for Expectant Moms; Behavioral: Time, attention, and information-matched control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03826342

HUM00143896

1R01HD093611-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This proposed study is to test whether Health Check-up for Expectant Moms (HCEM), a computer-delivered screening and brief intervention (SBI) that simultaneously targets sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk and alcohol/drug use during pregnancy, reduces antenatal and postpartum risk more than an attention, time, and information matched control condition among pregnant women seeking prenatal care.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least one unprotected vaginal (or anal) sex occasion in the past 30 days
• Having more than one male sex partner in the last 6 months and/or having uncertainty about current partner's monogamy.
• Pregnant
• Current alcohol/drug use risk.

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to understand English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

Health Check-up for Expectant Moms

Experimental group

Description:

Theory-driven and derived from empirical support

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Check-up for Expectant Moms

Time, attention, and information-matched control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Well-validated

Treatment:

Behavioral: Time, attention, and information-matched control