Trial reportHealth services research1996
Evaluation of the effectiveness of a community-based enriched model prenatal intervention project in the District of Columbia.
Trial report in Health services research, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Medicaid and preterm birth and low birth weight: the last two decades.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2010Review
- Lower rates of low birthweight and preterm births in the California Black Infant Health Program.Journal of the National Medical Association · 2004Article
- The influence of proximity of prenatal services on small-for-gestational-age birth.Journal of community health · 2002Article
- The impact on clients of a community-based infant mortality reduction program: the National Healthy Start Program Survey of Postpartum Women.American journal of public health · 2001Article
- Receipt of recommended prenatal interventions and birth weight among African-American women: analysis of data from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey.Maternal and child health journal · 1997Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate an enriched prenatal intervention program designed to reduce the risk of low birth weight. STUDY
settingFreestanding community-based prenatal intervention project located in a poor inner-city community, serving mostly African American women. STUDY
designAll women less than 29 weeks pregnant were eligible to participate. They were compared to women who lived in neighborhoods with similar rates of poverty. DATA COLLECTION: The birth certificate was the source of data on maternal age, education, marital status, timing and frequency of prenatal care attendance, parity, gravidity, prior pregnancy terminations, fetal and child deaths, and birth weight. PRINCIPAL
findingsThirty-eight percent of the women who delivered live-born infants in the study area participated in the program. There were no differences in low- and very low birthweight rates in the study and comparison groups. In a secondary analysis comparing participants and nonparticipants in the study census tracts, participants were at higher risk for low and very low birth weight, and they adhered more closely to the schedule of prenatal visits than nonparticipants. Low- and very low birthweight rates were lower among participants than among nonparticipants and comparison women.
conclusionThe Better Babies Project did not have an effect on the overall low- and very low birthweight rates in the study census tracts. This was probably due to the low participation rates and the high population mobility.
Indexed as
Identifiers
8943993PMC1070144What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.