New Clinical Trial Grant Funded by the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health: Mindfulness and Wearable Biosensors to Prevent Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (MINDBP)

A 3 year R01 $1.2 million Multi PI grant funded by the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health has been awarded – Mindfulness and Wearable Biosensors to Prevent Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (MINDBP). Mindfulness-based interventions hold significant promise as a non-pharmacological intervention to prevent preeclampsia. Mindfulness-based interventions significantly reduce blood pressure in adults with hypertension and prehypertension. In the MINDBP study we seek to determine if prenatal mindfulness training intervention can be feasible, acceptable, and delivered with fidelity across multiple sites, MCW and Brown University with Dr. Margaret Bublitz, with Dr. Anna Palatnik being the PI at MCW.

In addition, we will explore whether our intervention can have even higher adherence with minor enhancement using wearable biosensors as they hold great potential to augment the beneficial effects of mindfulness by enabling continuous, realtime, and non-invasive monitoring of physiological responses. The MINDBP study will generate necessary data to inform a future large-scale trial examining effectiveness of MT in HDP prevention.