NCT06557005Recruiting
Facilitated Transitions From Postpartum to Primary Care Coordination for People With Chronic Conditions
Bridges to Primary Care: Transforming Postpartum Primary Care Coordination for People With Chronic Conditions
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The lack of postpartum primary care coordination is a missed opportunity to increase primary care engagement and manage chronic conditions early in life, especially for the \>30% of pregnant people who have or are at risk for these conditions. This study aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening postpartum transitions to primary care using a behavioral economics-informed, multi-component intervention integrated into usual inpatient postpartum care. Using a randomized controlled trial and repeated outcome assessments through administrative and survey data, this study will generate rigorous, actionable evidence to ensure primary care coordination becomes standard postpartum care practice, potentially catalyzing sustained primary care engagement throughout life.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1320 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Aug 2024
- Start date
- 23 May 2025
- Primary completion date
- 23 May 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Diseases
- Obesity, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06557005
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 1320
- From 23 May 2025 to the primary completion date, 23 May 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- Any individual not meeting all inclusion criteria
Who the study is looking for
- Receiving obstetric care at an MGH-affiliated obstetrics practice (except for the MGH HOPE Clinic, which has a unique care model that provides prenatal and postnatal care for individuals with substance use disorder, including the provision of primary care through 2+ years postpartum)
- Pregnant with a live fetus or delivered a live-born neonate ≥24 weeks of gestation, based on the clinical estimate of gestational age
- If postpartum, has a neonate that is currently living at the time of enrollment
- Has one or more of the following conditions listed in the "Problem List," "Medical History," or clinical notes during prenatal, intrapartum, or postpartum encounters in the EHR (or in the case of BMI, the patient's anthropometric measurements):
- Chronic or essential hypertension
- Hypertensive disorders related to pregnancy (e.g., pre-eclampsia)
- Type 1 or 2 diabetes (i.e., pre-existing diabetes)
- Gestational diabetes
- Class II Obesity (pre-pregnancy body mass index ≥35 kg/m2; or if pre-pregnancy body mass index is not known, a first trimester BMI of ≥35 kg/m2)
- Depression or anxiety disorder
- Has a primary care clinician listed in the patient's medical record
- Has access to or agrees to be enrolled in the electronic health record patient portal and consents to be contacted via these modalities
- Able to read/speak English or Spanish language
- Is age ≥18 years old
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
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