Reducing Stress-Sensitive Problems Among Pregnant Black Women With Childhood Adversity

TPI is designed to foster behavior change and health coping by enhancing knowledge, beliefs, regulation skills and abilities. In the experimental group, a research staff member will meet with participants and help them to identify a health behavior they want to change, explore the pros and cons of making a change, create a behavior change plan, and learn several mindfulness meditation techniques. The facilitator will check-in with the participants about their behavior change plan in the subsequent sessions regarding progress made, barriers encountered, and changes in the plan and/or goal going forward. Participants will be instructed to implement an at-home mental wellness skills and provided with a tracking log to report the frequency and dose of daily/weekly practice.

In the control group, a research staff member will provide participants with four different weekly prenatal education topics, including information on prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and newborn care.