Empowering New Mothers: Exploring the Effect of Breastfeeding Health Educational Program on Practices and Feeding Self-Efficacy of Primigravida in Saudi Arabia

Alexandria University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Primigravida Women

Treatments: Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06423534

H-2024-126

Details and patient eligibility

About

Being pregnant causes a mother and her child to form a maternal tie, and the birth of the child fills the mother with an immense amount of love and happiness. Breastfeeding is how a mother and infant make their initial touch. Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby.

Full description

This study will be done to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 17 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primigravida mothers who regularly visit maternity hospitals at Hail and Bisha City.
• Primigravida mothers during last three trimester and 1 month after delivery
• No problems during pregnant and have a healthy baby
• Primigravida mothers who are not contraindicated to breastfeeding

Exclusion criteria

• Multigravida mothers and pregnant women during first and second trimester

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Study GROUP

Experimental group

Description:

Each primigravida in the study group during the last three trimesters will receive three sessions of knowledge, breast care, and breastfeeding technique after filling out a questionnaire (pretest). During 1 month from delivery, we will conduct a post-test with them (after 2 weeks and after 4 weeks) to explore the effect of breastfeeding health educational programs on practices and breastfeeding self-efficacy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group was selected first and received a brochure leaflet delivered by the researcher. They didn't receive the health educational program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program