Home visits for pregnant women: a simple way to better births?
NCT ID NCT04628598
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether home visits by healthcare providers during pregnancy can improve mothers' knowledge, increase vaginal births, boost breastfeeding confidence, and reduce postpartum depression. Sixty-four first-time mothers with low-risk pregnancies took part. The approach involved providing prenatal education and care in the women's own homes.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- home visits with prenatal education
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that home visits help pregnant women learn more and have better birth outcomes.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with only 64 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. It does not test a new drug or treatment.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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64 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2020
- Finished
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Feb 2022
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * The pregnant woman is primiparas. * Detection of the pregnant woman in family medicine software * The pregnant woman does not have a high risk pregnancy. * Finding a single fetus in the pregnant woman. * Not having received infertility treatment. * The pregnant woman did not have a psychiatric diagnosis. * The pregnant woman's acceptance to participate in the research. Exclusion Criteria: * Being in the high risk category of the pregnant woman * The mother tongue is not Turkish * Having attended a planned, periodic pregnancy school course * Being multiparous
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa
Istanbul, Avcılar, 34320, Turkey (Türkiye)
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