ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2013
Comparing CenteringPregnancy® to standard prenatal care plus prenatal education.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Parenting Interventions for Fathers of Infants From Conception to the Age of 12 Months: Systematic Review of Mixed Methods Studies.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of providers' experiences of facilitating group antenatal care.Reproductive health · 2021Pooled it
- Group Prenatal Care Compared With Traditional Prenatal Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2016Pooled it
- Group versus conventional antenatal care for women.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- CenteringPregnancy in the Netherlands: Who engages, who doesn't, and why.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2022Trial
- Cognitive behavioral stress management effects on prenatal anxiety among low-income women.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2022Trial
- Patient Characteristics Associated With Group Prenatal Care Attendance in a Randomized Controlled Trial.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthTrial
- The Effects of CenteringPregnancy: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Implementing group care in Dutch and Surinamese maternity and child care services: the vital importance of addressing outer context barriers.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Group Multimodal Prenatal Care and Postpartum Outcomes.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress, and Equity Through Group Prenatal Care: A Pilot Study.Health equity · 2024Article
- Contributions of CenteringPregnancy to women's health behaviours, health literacy, and health care use in the Netherlands.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Group Prenatal Care vs. Traditional Prenatal Care: A Parity-Matched Comparison of Perinatal Outcomes in a Rural Community.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
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- Promoting Shared Decision Making About Birth After Cesarean in Haitian Women.The Journal of perinatal education · 2022Article
- IMPaCT: A Pilot Randomized Trial of an Intervention to Reduce Preterm Birth Among Non-Hispanic Black Patients at High Risk.Health equity · 2022Article
- The Experience of Pregnant Women in the Health Management Model of Internet-Based Centering Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study.International journal of women's health · 2022Article
- An Overview of Finnish Maternal Health Care As a Potential Model for Decreasing Maternal Mortality in the United States.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Health Care Experience Among Women Who Completed Group Prenatal Care (CenteringPregnancy) Compared to Individual Prenatal Care Within Military Treatment Facilities.Journal of patient experience · 2020Article
- Using the ORBIT Model to Design an Intervention Promoting Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy: the Value of an Iterative and Incremental Approach to Intervention Development.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is significant evidence to support the importance of prenatal care in preventing adverse outcomes such as preterm birth and low infant birth weight. Previous studies have indicated that the benefits of prenatal care are not evenly distributed throughout the social strata. In addition, emerging evidence suggests that among particular populations, rates of preterm birth are unchanged or increasing. This suggests that an alternate care model is necessary, one that seeks to addresses some of the myriad of social factors that also contribute to adverse birth outcomes. In previous studies, the group prenatal care model CenteringPregnancy® had been shown to reduce adverse birth outcomes, but to date, no comparison had been made with a model that included prenatal education. This study sought to investigate whether any significant difference remained within the comparison groups when both models accounted for social factors.
methodsThis analysis was based on survey data collected from a prospective cohort of pregnant women through the All Our Babies Study in Calgary, Alberta.
resultsAt baseline, there were significant differences between the comparison groups in their psychosocial health, with the women in the CenteringPregnancy® group scoring higher levels of depressive symptoms, stress and anxiety. At four months postpartum, the differences between the groups were no longer significant.
conclusionsThese results suggest that CenteringPregnancy® can recruit and retain a demographically vulnerable group of women with a constellation of risk factors for poor pregnancy and birth outcomes, including poverty, language barriers and poor mental health. Post program, the rates of stress, anxiety and depression were similar to other women with more social and financial advantage. These findings suggest that CenteringPregnancy® may be a community based care strategy that contributes to improved mental health, knowledge, and behaviours to optimize outcomes for mothers and children.
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