Actively Recruiting
Postpartum Care in the NICU (PeliCaN) Transitions
Led by University of Pennsylvania · Updated on 2025-10-14
20
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
150 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This is a randomized controlled trial of a dyad-centered, doula support and healthcare coordination model of care in a large urban neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), which serves a high-risk, low-income, majority Black population. In addition to doula support and coordination of care in the NICU, there will be a warm handoff to a community doula to continue the support once infants leave the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) NICU.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Postpartum Care in the NICU (PeliCaN) Transitions
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Postpartum patients at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) who are at least 16 years old at the time of their newborn's birth
- Infant born at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
- Infant born prematurely before 34 weeks gestation
- English-speaking participants
You will not qualify if you...
- Unable to read or sign informed consent
- Parents of infants transferred into HUP NICU
- Infants expected not to live or to be transferred to another hospital within upcoming weeks as determined by medical team
- Postpartum patients younger than 16 years at the time of their newborn's birth
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
H
Heather Burris, MD MPH
CONTACT
N
Niesha Darden
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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