Adolescent Mothers, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weaning; Breastfeeding

Treatments: Behavioral: counseling sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00910377

02-389

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether counseling sessions on breastfeeding for adolescent mothers and their grandmothers in the maternity ward and at home are effective in to improve the exclusive and total breastfeeding rates during the first six month, as well as the convenient timing of supplementary feeding introduction.

Full description

Despite the recognized value of exclusive breastfeeding during the first months of a child's life and efforts for promoting this practice, rates for this pattern of breastfeeding in Brazil are below those recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO), which advocates exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months. The last national survey about the prevalence of breastfeeding revealed a median duration of 10 months. However , the length of exclusive breastfeeding was only 23 days.

A lot of studies identified maternal age as predictor of breastfeeding. In African, Asian, Latin American and the Pacific societies, older women, or grandmothers,traditionally have considerable influence on decisions related to maternal and child health at the household level.

Considering all that, interventions intended to increase frequency of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding. However, there are few studies on this subject.

Enrollment: 344 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent mothers
• Mothers living in the city of Porto Alegre
• Healthy nontwin newborns with birth weight equal or greater than 2500g

Exclusion criteria

• Mothers living with mother-in-law
• Mother-infant pairs that were unable to stay together due to a health concern in either the mother or infant
• Mammaplasty reductive

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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344 participants in 4 patient groups

visit with grandmother

Experimental group

Description:

Teenagers mothers and their grandmothers receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

Treatment:

Behavioral: counseling sessions

visit without grandmother

Experimental group

Description:

Teenagers mothers don´t live with their grandmothers and receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

Treatment:

Behavioral: counseling sessions

no visit with grandmother

No Intervention group

Description:

Teenagers mothers live with their grandmothers and don´t receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

no visit without grandmother

No Intervention group

Description:

Teenagers mothers don´t live with their grandmothers and don´t receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.