Providing an Optimized and emPowered Pregnancy for You (PᵌOPPY) Feasibility Study

NCT ID: NCT05940688

Last Updated: 2025-10-17

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-07-17

Study Completion Date

2024-07-01

Brief Summary

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The P3OPPY Project is one of five projects within the American Heart Association P3 EQUATE Network. The overarching goal of the P3 EQUATE American Heart Association Health Equity Research Network (HERN) is to promote equity in Maternal and Infant Health outcomes by identifying innovative and cost-effective strategies to enhance access to quality health information, care, and experiences during pregnancy, postnatal and postpartum/preconception periods, particularly for Black and under-served populations. Collectively, the investigators will collaborate with pregnant and postpartum individuals and their families, hospitals, and communities to discover ways to reduce racism and social problems that contribute to poor health outcomes.

Detailed Description

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Feasibility Study Aims

1. To assess the feasibility of the digital health (DHI) and community health worker (CHW) interventions by assessing participant acceptance and use of the intervention.
2. To assess study enrollment to determine appropriateness and usefulness of the inclusion and exclusion criteria to estimate enrollment duration in the planned trial.
3. To determine the number of prenatal visits and the incidence of some of the maternal and neonatal outcomes (ones with higher prevalence) or surrogate outcomes that will be targeted in the planned factorial design randomized controlled trial. (Data will be collected on all relevant maternal and neonatal outcomes. The randomized feasibility design will allow for effect size estimates of the intervention on the incidence of maternal and neonatal outcomes, which will aid in determining the appropriate target outcomes as well as power calculation of the more definitive trial.)

The PᵌOPPY study is designed to support the American Heart Association's mission to improve maternal/infant health outcomes and address inequities in maternal/infant health care. The promise of digital health and community health worker engagement makes PᵌOPPY interventions potentially transformative, sustainable, and scalable for Non-Hispanic Black mothers and their infants from under-served communities in Alabama and beyond. The objective of this pilot study is to determine if it is feasible to randomize and implement digital health and community health worker interventions.

Design Summary

The investigators will challenge existing care paradigms by testing the effectiveness of integrating innovative platforms into the existing healthcare system, including existing digital health and community health worker programs from within the EQUATE consortium, to eliminate critical barriers to equitable healthcare access. After seeking input from a Community Advisory Board, these interventions will be refined and deployed for pilot testing. Individuals in Non-Hispanic Black communities at the highest risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes which were historically underrepresented in clinical research due to structural racism will be included. The investigative team employs experts across the community, maternal, and infant health continuum.

For this pilot, 40 eligible participants will be randomized, 10 to usual care, 10 to DHI, 10 to CHW, and 10 to DHI + CHW

Conditions

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Pregnancy Infants Disparities

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Study is a pilot randomized trial (n=40) randomizing eligible participants to usual care (n=10), or usual care plus a digital health intervention (n=10), or usual care plus a community health worker intervention (n=10), or usual care plus both a digital health intervention and a community health worker intervention.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

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Digital Health Intervention

This group will receive routine prenatal care services. Additionally, those randomized to this arm will receive a DHI intervention. A modified DHI will be utilized that was developed by Memora Health in conjunction with EQUATE partners at UPenn and feedback from the POPPY Study Team and Community Advisory Board. All content is designed for 7th grade Flesch-Kincaid level or lower.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Digital Health intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Health care information delivered via a link in a text message that is then opened in a secure browser.

Community health worker (CHW)

Individuals randomized to this group will receive routine prenatal care services. Additionally, they will receive a CHW intervention. The CHW intervention will be adapted from an ongoing CHW program in Jefferson County, AL called "From Day One (FDO)", a comprehensive patient-centered program designed to educate and provide non-clinical, psychosocial, emotional support to expectant mothers from the 1st trimester of pregnancy through their child's first year of life. The intervention has been modified by the POPPY Study Team and Community Advisory Board.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Community Health Worker

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Health care information delivered via CHW.

DHI Plus CHW

This group will receive routine prenatal care services. Additionally, this group will receive both DHI and CHW interventions.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Digital Health Intervention plus Community Health Worker

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Health care information delivered via DHI plus CHW

Usual Care

This group will receive routine prenatal care services.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Digital Health intervention

Health care information delivered via a link in a text message that is then opened in a secure browser.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Community Health Worker

Health care information delivered via CHW.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Digital Health Intervention plus Community Health Worker

Health care information delivered via DHI plus CHW

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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DHI CHW

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Self Identifies as Non-Hispanic Black
* Between 16-49 years old
* Pregnant individuals between 8⁰ - 22⁶ weeks gestational age
* Live singleton or dichorionic twin gestation
* Dating sonogram at \<23 weeks gestation
* Area Deprivation Index (ADI) National 4th or 5th Quintile
* Planning to deliver at UAB Hospital
* Speaks and writes in English
* No indication for delivery at the time of enrollment

Exclusion Criteria

* Declines randomization
* Speaks or writes in languages other than English
* Currently incarcerated
* Fetal demise diagnosed prior to enrollment
* Known major structural chromosomal abnormalities prior to enrollment
Minimum Eligible Age

16 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

49 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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American Heart Association

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

ConnectionHealth

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Memora Health

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Alabama at Birmingham

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rachel Sinkey

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Rachel Sinkey, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Locations

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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22HERNPMI985239

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

300009897

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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