Evaluating an eHealth Breastfeeding Resource

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breastfeeding; Breastfeeding, Exclusive

Treatments: Other: eHealth Breastfeeding Co-parenting Resource

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03492411

v3vt62d9

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will evaluate an eHealth breastfeeding co-parenting resource designed for mothers and their co-parents. Couples will be randomized to study groups and the intervention group will receive information about this resource or the control group will receive usual care. The primary outcomes will be exclusive breastfeeding at 4 and 24 weeks postpartum.

Full description

This trial will evaluate an eHealth breastfeeding co-parenting resource designed for mothers and their co-parents. Couples will be randomized to study groups and the intervention group will receive information about this resource with an online demonstration and weekly emails for 6 weeks reminding them about the resource. The control group will receive usual care and 6 weekly emails reminding them that they are in the study. The primary outcomes will be exclusive breastfeeding at 4 and 24 weeks postpartum. Additional outcomes will include: breastfeeding initiation, duration, challenges, attitude, knowledge, confidence, anxiety, partners support and co-parenting.

Enrollment: 217 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 88 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older, over 25 weeks pregnant, planning to breastfeed, lives with co-parent who is willing to participate, first time mother or mother who has not previously breastfed,

Exclusion criteria

• does not have access to the internet and telephone, does not reads and speaks English, does not lives in Ontario, Canada, is expecting more than one child with this pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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217 participants in 2 patient groups

eHealth Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive information about an eHealth breastfeeding co-parenting resource. They will have a short demonstration of the site and will receive weekly emails for 6 weeks reminding them about the resource and their participation in the study.

Treatment:

Other: eHealth Breastfeeding Co-parenting Resource

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not receive any intervention. They will receive emails for 6 weeks reminding them that they are in the study.