Nurse Family Partnership for Women With Previous Live Births
Pregnancy, High Risk, Child Development, Post Partum Depression
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Pregnancy, High Risk focused on measuring Nurse Family Partnership, Home Visiting
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: pregnant at 28 weeks EGA or less history of previous live birth covered by Medicaid or Medicaid-eligible at least one of the following risks or adversities -age 19 or younger, no high school degree or equivalent, homeless (using a standardized definition), previous birth with low birth weight or prematurity, previous pregnancy with severe morbidity based on Centers for Disease Control definition, current pregnancy within 18 months of previous pregnancy, currently using tobacco or marijuana, history of substance use disorder, and self-identification as Black/African American (as a marker of facing the adversity of structural racism). Exclusion Criteria: unable converse and demonstrate adequate understanding to provide consent for study participation in English are already enrolled in a home-visiting intervention with this pregnancy have previously been enrolled in NFP under the age of 16 years. Note that we propose to exclude those who don't speak English from our study because the community served by the two NFP delivery sites participating in our study is mostly English-speaking. However, those who don't speak English are not excluded from participation in NFP, and NFP routinely provides services to all eligible families regardless of language spoken using bilingual/multilingual nurses when available or using interpretation services. NFP materials for nurses to use with families, known as 'facilitators', are available in several languages. In the rare circumstance that a pregnant woman is excluded from participating in our study based on language, they will not be excluded from receiving NFP.
Sites / Locations
- Nationwide Children's HospitalRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
No Intervention
Intervention (NFP)
Control
In the standard NFP intervention, low-income pregnant women are recruited to voluntarily join the program through their 28th week of pregnancy. Enrolled women receive home visits from a nurse. The visits can occur in-person or via telehealth. In-person visits can occur in the client's home or in another community location agreed upon by the client and the nurse (such as a library or coffee shop). The typical schedule for visits is weekly during the first month after enrollment, every two weeks until the birth of the infant, weekly during the post-partum period, then every two to four weeks until child age two.
The control group will receive usual care for pregnant people, which may include home visiting services from another source other than NFP. Participants who are randomly selected to receive other services will be given information about other services for which they may qualify and information about how to access those services.