Accountability for Care Through Undoing Racism & Equity for Moms
Reducing Racial Disparities in Maternal Care Through Data-Based Accountability and Doula Support
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
30,000 participants
Jun 5, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This project-also known as "Accountability for Care through Undoing Racism \& Equity for Moms" or ACURE4Moms-aims to reduce Black-White maternal health disparities using multi-level interventions designed to decrease bias in prenatal care, improve care coordination, and increase social support. ACURE4Moms is a pragmatic 4-arm cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 39 prenatal practices across North Carolina. Practices have been randomly assigned to receive either: Arm 1 (Standard Care): North Carolina Medicaid Care management for high-risk pregnancies; Arm 2 (Data Accountability and Transparency): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Practice-level Data Accountability interventions; Arm 3 (Community-Based Doula Support): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Community-Based Doula support intervention for high-risk patients during pregnancy and postpartum; or Arm 4 (Data Accountability and Transparency + Community-Based Doula Support): North Carolina Medicaid Care Management + Both Arms 2 and 3 interventions. During each practice's 2-year intervention period, the practice will initiate prenatal care for \~750-1,500 patients (up to 60,000 patients total), whose outcomes the investigators will follow and compare between arms until all these patients have reached 1-year post-delivery.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria12
- Practices:
- Have at least 180 Black patient deliver over 2 years
- Be willing to be randomized
- Be willing to adhere to the study protocol
- Patient survey participants:
- Start prenatal care at one of the study clinics during study implementation
- Self-identify as Black or African American
- Able to give consent and complete surveys and interviews in English
- Practice staff member participants:
- Employed as either a provider, nurse/medical assistant, or office administrator at one of the clinics in this study
- Doula participants:
- Provide doula care to patients at one the clinics in this study
Exclusion Criteria3
- Practices:
- Already integrated with Community-Based Doulas
- Already have an Early Warning System or Disparities Dashboard
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Interventions
Collaboration with Practice Facilitators; Maternal Early Warning System; Disparities Dashboard; Racial Equity Training
Community-Based Doula support for high-risk patients; Racial Equity Training
Locations(1)
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NCT05484804