Postpartum Video Education in High Risk Populations
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Where
- New York, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Terminated
- People taking part
- 50 people enrolled
- Started
- 9 May 2024
- Ended
- 12 Sept 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Video Education
- Record updated
- 21 August 2026
- Why it stopped
- Due to limited staffing, recruitment for this study was stopped.
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age >18 years
- Speaks English or Spanish
- Informed and written consent
- Delivered at WCM
- Received prenatal, and will receive postpartum, care through a WCM-affiliated obstetric and/or midwifery practice
- Self-identified as Black, Latinx, other and/or Medicaid or Uninsured
Who cannot take part
- Patients who do not plan to receive postpartum care within the WCM system
- Patients who experience an intrauterine fetal demise
- Patients who speak a primary language other than English or Spanish
Where in United States
- Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and NewbornsNew York, United States
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This is a prospective, single-center, randomized control study to determine if video education at the time of postpartum discharge improves patient knowledge on the warning signs for the top three causes of severe maternal morbidity (infection, hemorrhage, and blood pressure disorders) in the first seven days following delivery for self-identified, Black, Latinx, other with two or more self-identified races, Medicaid, and/or uninsured postpartum individuals. Participants will be randomized to written discharge education + video education (intervention) vs standard discharge education (control). They will complete a baseline questionnaire and a post-discharge education questionnaire during their postpartum stay to assess for knowledge improvement. The investigators hypothesize that video education will improve patient's knowledge of severe maternal morbidity warning signs.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Written Discharge Education + Video EducationTreatment being tested
These patients will view a 12-minute educational video on SMM warning signs, in addition to the written discharge instructions provided by nursing staff. At the completion of the video, they will complete a post-video questionnaire to assess their knowledge on the covered topics.
Treatment: Video Education
- Written Discharge EducationNo study treatment, for comparison
They will receive the written discharge instructions provided by nursing staff and complete the post-discharge instruction questionnaire.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- You Matter: Using Video Education to Improve Patient Knowledge of Severe Maternal Morbidity Warning Signs in High Risk Populations
- Record updated
- 21 August 2026