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Holistic Care Partner Program Feasibility and Acceptability

Holistic Care Partners: A Black Woman-led Nurse Navigation Program to Improve Care, Reduce Harm, and Enhance Perinatal Wellbeing for Black Birthing People

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · Women · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Identify as Black or within the Black/African Diaspora
2. Enrolled in the HCP program while pregnant or within 6 weeks postpartum
3. Enrolled in the Faculty Group Practice at NYU Langone Health (NYULH) for obstetric care
4. Plan to give birth at NYULH Tisch or gave birth at NYULH Tisch if postpartum at screening.
5. Comfortable reading and/or speaking English (approximately 95% of Black women speak English)
6. Are 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Does not identify as Black or within the Black/African Diaspora
2. Did not enroll in the HCP program while pregnant or within 6 weeks postpartum.
3. Not enrolled in the FGP NYULH for obstetric care
4. Does not plan to give birth at NYULH Tisch or did not give birth at NYULH Tisch if postpartum at time of screening.
5. Is not 18 years or older
6. Multiple gestation
7. Significant fetal anomaly requiring exceptional care

About the study

The study aims to build on the knowledge of the United States' ongoing maternal health crisis for Black birthing people. The study team will take a holistic focused approach to build on the experiences of Black women perinatal nurses, Black women/birthing people, and their care partners enrolled in the Holistic Care Partner Program (HCP) to understand the program's feasibility and acceptability. HCP was developed at NYU Langone Health by Blank women-led perinatal nurses to address the effects of obstetric racism and the associated fear of pregnancy and birth faced by Black women and birthing people. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the study will focus on understanding HCP's acceptability and feasibility via surveys and qualitative interviews with Black women and birthing people and their partners/support persons to identify strategies and recommendations for intervention improvement. Exploratory analysis of maternal and infant outcomes will be conducted using a propensity score matched historical control group.

What is being tested

• Holistic care partner perinatal nurse navigation (behavioral)

Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Participants: 55 · Started: Jul 15, 2024

Contact the study team

• Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RNC, FAAN · Phone: 212-992-5940
• Gwendolyn Quinn, PhD · Phone: 646-501-6878

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06520566

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.