Involving Communities in Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis: Making an IMPACT
Morehouse School of Medicine
Summary
With support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, The Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine is conducting a research study to test the implementation of Pre-Pregnancy Counseling in community-based settings.
Description
Severe racial disparities in pregnancy-related cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are preventable and warrant timely community-engaged action. Black women are 3 times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause, as compared to white women10 -in part, due to higher rates of cardiovascular risk during pregnancy. More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable. Preconception counseling has been shown to improve maternal health for all women, with clear benefits to address cardiovascular risk factors of obesity, diabetes, hypertension. In order to have impact, evide…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–44 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Self-identify as Black/ African-American * Fluent English-Speaker * Not pregnant at the time of enrollment * Own a phone * Receive services at the community-based site Exclusion Criteria: \-
Interventions
- BehavioralSBIRT Intervention
Project IMPACT intervention will follow a Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Model. In the proposed study, staff at community sites will deliver a tailored SBIRT model for people seeking to get pregnant as our "Project IMPACT intervention". SBIRT was originally developed as a public health model designed to provide universal screening, secondary prevention (detecting risky or hazardous substance use before the onset of abuse or dependence), early intervention, and treatment for people who have problematic or hazardous alcohol problems within primary care and other health care settings. Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has adapted this SBIRT model for people who are seeking to get pregnant to assess their risks and provide early intervention to at-risk people of reproductive age who want to get pregnant. Brief preconception counseling interventions addressing multiple behavioral risk factors have been found to be effective in prior studies.
Locations (2)
- Morehouse School of MedicineAtlanta, Georgia
- Morehouse School of MedicineAtlanta, Georgia