Evaluation of Breastfeeding Support After Short Time Hospitalization

Danish Committee for Health Education

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Other: New Breastfeeding Counselling; Other: Treatment as usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01620723

7111442

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if the developed theory and evidence based programme has a positive effect on mother's breastfeeding self efficacy, establishing an effective breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration after short time hospitalization.

Enrollment: 3,541 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• pregnant women (gestational week 35-36)

Exclusion criteria

• women with known physical, psychological and/or social illness/problem that result in hospitalization more than 50 hours after delivery
• women with known pregnancy related illness that result in hospitalization more than 50 hours after delivery
• Women not understanding or speaking Danish
• women expecting multiple babies
• women having decided not to breastfeed
• women expecting to deliver at another hospital than the one she has been visiting during pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,541 participants in 2 patient groups

New breastfeeding programme

Experimental group

Description:

The breastfeeding programme consists of four core elements: 1. breastfeeding is a parental task 2. skin to skin contact during the first three days 3. frequent breastfeeding at least 8 times a day 4. good positioning, preferable in a laid back position Moreover communication was supposed to enhance breastfeeding self-efficacy, using Banduras theory of self-efficacy

Treatment:

Other: New Breastfeeding Counselling

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Breastfeeding counselling uses the national handbook of breastfeeding as reference

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual