NCT02640638

A RCT of CenteringPregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Reducing Disparities in Birth Outcomes: a Randomized Controlled Trial of CenteringPregnancy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,350 (actual)
• Sponsor: Clemson University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care can improve preterm birth rate and other birth outcomes, maternal psychosocial and behavioral outcomes, and decrease the racial difference in selected birth outcomes among African American and White women, compared to individual prenatal care.

Detailed description

This is a randomized controlled trial to compare biomedical, behavioral and psychosocial outcomes by race among pregnant women who participate in CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care, to women in the traditional individual prenatal care and to investigate whether improving women's stress, activation and engagement will explain the potential benefits of CenteringPregnancy on outcomes and health disparities. The trial will be conducted in a large prenatal care center in South Carolina. Eligible White and Black women will be recruited before 20 weeks of gestational age with low risk pregnancy.

Conditions

• Pregnancy
• Preterm Birth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CenteringPregnancy	8-12 pregnant women whose due dates are in the same month will receive ten 2-hour group prenatal care sessions according to the standard curriculum provided by the Centering Healthcare Institute.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-24
• Primary completion: 2020-10-14
• Completion: 2021-01-21
• First posted: 2015-12-29
• Last updated: 2022-08-26

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States