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Support Via Online Social Networks to Promote Safe Infant Care Practices Toward Reducing Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality

Status: Recruiting

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Intervention Type: Behavioral

Study Type: Interventional

Study Phase: Not Applicable

SUMMARY

This study aims to improve adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics safe sleep (SS) recommendations and improve rates of initiation and duration of partial and exclusive breastfeeding (BF); and reduce Black/White disparities in these practices through the use of private Facebook groups providing a) evidence-based education through videos and other multi-media supporting best practices and b) an online community and social network of other pregnant WIC clients and new parents.

Eligibility

Participation Requirements

Sex: Female

Healthy Volunteers: f

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• Currently enrolled in WIC, or it not, then have either Medicaid or no health insurance

• Must be English speaking

• Must be pregnant and less than 30 weeks gestation

• Must live in the United States

• Must have regular access to Facebook and short message service (SMS) texting (mobile phone)

Locations

United States

Massachusetts

Boston University Medical Campus

RECRUITING

Boston

Contact Information

Primary

Katherine Boguszewski, MA

Keb5un@uvahealth.org

434-243-9663

Time Frame

Start Date: 2024-03-01

Estimated Completion Date: 2026-07-01

Participants

Target number of participants: 3000

Treatments

Experimental: Safe Sleep

Participants will be part of a private Facebook group from approximately 32 weeks gestation to 6 months postpartum. The Facebook group will provide a) evidence-based education through videos and other multi-media supporting best practices for infant safe sleep and b) an online community and social network of other pregnant WIC clients and new parents

Experimental: Breastfeeding

Participants will be part of a private Facebook group from approximately 32 weeks gestation to 6 months postpartum. The Facebook group will provide a) evidence-based education through videos and other multi-media supporting best practices for breastfeeding and b) an online community and social network of other pregnant WIC clients and new parents

Experimental: Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding

Participants will be part of a private Facebook group from approximately 32 weeks gestation to 6 months postpartum. The Facebook group will provide a) evidence-based education through videos and other multi-media supporting best practices for infant safe sleep and breastfeeding, and b) an online community and social network of other pregnant WIC clients and new parents

Active_comparator: Early Brain Development and Parent -Child Relationships

Participants will be part of a private Facebook group from approximately 32 weeks gestation to 6 months postpartum. The Facebook group will provide a) evidence-based education through videos and other multi-media supporting best practices for early brain development and parent-child interactions (control intervention) and b) an online community and social network of other pregnant WIC clients and new parents.

Related Therapeutic Areas

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

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