Nutrition Optimization and Community Upliftment for Postpartum Recovery

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Conditions studied: Obesity, Maternal, Gestational Diabetes

In brief

The goal of this clinical trial is to better understand how different strategies, timing, and enhancements to medically tailored food delivery will address structural inequities in the food environment, empower communities to sustain behavior change, and ultimately improve postpartum weight control to prevent type 2 diabetes-a potent contributor to disparate mortality among Black women. The main aims of the study are: * To conduct a pilot randomized control trial to test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a multi-component Medically Tailored Food (MTF) intervention, Moveable Feast ENHANCED (a hybrid MTF intervention with a patient-activated change from prepared meals to fresh food delivery, customized for postpartum people, culturally customized for engagement and adherence, and food provision for dependents) versus MFeast Usual Care (prepared medically tailored foods only) * To test sustainability and scalability. Participants will: * Respond to online surveys (supported by study team members via scheduled phone calls) via REDCap links shared before each study visit at baseline, 3, 6 months post-delivery after the baseline survey. * Submit anthropometric data (i.e, weight) and information about laboratory results ( e.g. HgbA1C)

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06445530

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

40

Starts

2025-09-15

Expected to finish

2027-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-10-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥18 years
• Self-identify as Black or African American
• Low-income (defined as eligible for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits)
• Speak English as a primary language
• Identify as a primary meal planner/preparer
• Gestational diabetes
• Gestational age >37 weeks
• Have a BMI > 30 (calculated based on chart review of height and weight measurement)
• Willing to take part in the intervention and data collection procedures through online surveys

You may not qualify if…

• Mothers who have social support i.e. have family members preparing meals for the mother
• Mothers who are unlikely to be at the primary residence in the postpartum period
• Mothers with very specific dietary needs, i.e, food allergies, picky eaters, vegetarian / vegan
• Mothers whose birth outcome is a stillborn
• Mothers who have serious mental illness

Where it is running

• East Baltimore Medical Campus — Baltimore, Maryland, United States (enrolling)

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