Can a personal guide improve health for new moms in need?
NCT ID NCT03922334
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether a patient navigation program helps low-income women after childbirth. 405 women were assigned to either receive a navigator for one year or standard care. The goal was to see if the program improved things like attending checkups, getting birth control, breastfeeding, and mental health screening. The study aimed to understand how to better support new mothers facing financial challenges.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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405 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2020
- Finished
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Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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16 to 50 years
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
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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: * Pregnant (any plurality) delivering at or after 20 weeks of gestation OR postpartum (during hospitalization), regardless of perinatal outcome * 16 years or older * Low-income socioeconomic status (publicly funded prenatal care) * Ability to speak and read English or Spanish * Established patient at the Northwestern Medicine Prentice Ambulatory Care clinical site (at least one antenatal clinical visit). Exclusion Criteria: * Intent to transfer care to an outside institution * HIV (as these patients already receive intensive social support and navigation-like services at this institution) * Prior pregnancy in which individual declined participation * Prior enrollment in NNM2 * Enrollment in a concurrent research study that poses a potential conflict to the aims of either NNM2 or the other study
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
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