Mountain Mama Baby Cohort Study

Description

The Mountain Mama Cohort study is a supplemental grant to the WVCTSI (PI Dr. Sally Hodder) which aims to demonstrate feasibility of cohort enrollment and measure preliminary associations of e-cigarette, cannabis exposure, and other lifestyle behaviors during pregnancy on maternal-fetal health outcomes in 417 women enrolled through West Virginia obstetric clinics.  This project is co-led by Dr. Gibbs and Dr. Amna Umer (Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine).

Prenatal patients completing a nurse navigator visit to initiate pregnancy care at WVU Medicine are asked to provide verbal consent for participating in a cohort study that involves completing online surveys in the first and third trimesters about lifestyle behaviors (e.g., e-cigarette and other substance use, physical activity, diet, sleep) and mental health as well as consent to read-only access to their prenatal, labor, and delivery medical records for themselves and their baby.  Participants can receive up to $50 in gift cards for completing both sets of questionnaires.  At the end of the study, we hope to understand how many and whether a representative group of prenatal patients are willing to participate in this type of research, characterize behaviors in prenatal women in our region, and calculate preliminary associations between e-cigarettes, cannabis, and other lifestyle behaviors with pregnancy health and fetal health outcomes.