Teen Mom Study Feasibility Trial

Part of paid clinical trials in Jackson, Mississippi.

Sponsor
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Study ID
NCT05843903
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Gestational Weight Gain
  • Physical Activity
  • Sedentary Behavior
  • Social Determinants of Health

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
FEMALE
Age
15 Years - 19 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • #BabyLetsMove — BEHAVIORAL
    The #BabyLetsMove digital health intervention uses a multi-level, systems-change approach. At the systems-level, racially concordant young adult WIC moms will be trained as health coaches. At the person level, adolescent WIC clients will be given empirically supported behavior goals, self-monitoring text messages with automated feedback, tailored skills training materials, a FitBit device, and tailored peer coaching support. The #BabyLetsMove intervention design is based on formative Teen Mom Study findings to build social cognition, affect, and skills to modify 3 concrete, achievable, and easily monitored behavioral targets: (1) Limit television viewing time to less than 2 hours per day; (2) Walk at least 10,000 steps per day; and (3) Do 20 minutes or more of exercise per day.

Study Details

The proposed multicomponent digital health intervention has the potential to significantly impact the trajectory of maternal health in a rural, pregnant, Black adolescent population with the highest risks for cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. The proposed implementation strategy leverages mobile technologies which are ubiquitous across the socioeconomic gradient and proposes to train young adult WIC moms to deliver peer health coaching in a telehealth setting to address social barriers and support behavior change in pregnant, Black adolescent WIC clients in the Mississippi Delta - a rural region where the population is more than two-thirds percent Black and the teen birth rate is the highest in the United States. This is a scalable and sustainable approach to enhance WIC services and improve WIC's impact on population health and cardiometabolic health disparities in Black women.

Key Dates

Start date
Apr 7, 2025
Status verified
May 2025
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2025
Completion
Jun 1, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
20 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Experimental: #BabyLetsMove
    There are four digital components to the intervention including Fitbit activity tracker, interactive self-monitoring and tailored feedback text messages, tailored skills training text messages and materials, and peer health coaching.

Primary Outcome Measure

Acceptability [ Time Frame: Perceptions of acceptability at 36 weeks' gestation (post-intervention) ]

Central Contacts

Locations (2)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJacksonMississippi39216
Abigail Gamble, PhD, MS
[email protected]
601-815-9065
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJacksonMississippi39216
Abigail Gamble, PhD
[email protected]
601-815-9065
Rolanda Buck, MS
[email protected]
Abigail Gamble, PhD (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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