NCT05512247

Hearty Meals for Mom- Pilot Study of Meal Delivery for Cardiometabolic Health During Pregnancy

Use of Home-delivered Meals to Manage Cardiometabolic Health During Pregnancy Among Predominantly Black, Low-income Women in Alabama

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being done to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of a meal delivery intervention designed to improve diet quality and promote appropriate gestational weight gain among predominantly Black and low-income pregnant women with overweight or obesity. This will be done by 1) assessing the feasibility and acceptability of the meal delivery intervention; 2) investigating changes in patient-reported diet quality, barriers to healthy eating, and food security; and 3) exploring the preliminary impact of the meal delivery intervention on gestational weight gain and blood pressure and estimate the effect size of the intervention relative to a de-identified non-randomized control group that will be derived from de-identified hospital records.

Detailed description

Subjects will receive 10 home-delivered meals per week from about 20 weeks gestation until 40 weeks gestation.

Conditions

• Diet, Healthy
• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Meal Delivery	10 home-delivered meals per week provided by a local meal delivery company + brief weekly behavioral support with study staff

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-05
• Primary completion: 2026-05-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2022-08-23
• Last updated: 2026-01-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States